Test phase is over: Rewe dispensed plastic bags – n-tv.de NEWS

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 Wednesday 01 June 2016

 
 
 

 
 Only until July wants Germany’s second largest food retailer Rewe to sell its remaining stocks of plastic bags. A test phase comes after the company good, the customers were mainly positive react.
 

 
 

Germany’s second largest food retailer Rewe stops the sale of plastic bags. This is intended in Germany annually about 140 million plastic bags less in waste land, as the company announced. Instead of polluting plastic bags, the group wants to offer its customers in all its supermarkets alternatives of cotton and jute, as well as permanent shopping bags made from recycled materials, cardboard boxes and paper bags.

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Remainder of plastic bags are sold in the markets but until July, the company said. In the more than 3000 Rewe markets a week to buy a 27 million customers. In a three-month test phase, the company had tried to renounce the plastic bags in more than 130 markets. A majority of consumers favor and accept the step, the retail giant summed up his experience. Nearly two-thirds of the surveyed customers wanted access to reusable tote bags or shopping boxes.

Not affected by the plastic bag ban at Rewe are, according to a company spokesperson provisionally the free transparent plastic bags containing about at the fruit and vegetable counter be used. But here will look for alternatives. Further details will Rewe at a press conference with Federal Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks and Naturschutzbund Germany (NABU) in the morning in Berlin known.

  Source: n-tv.de
 

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