[CINC] Albertson's is going "bagless"

Tue Mar 8 20:17:23 PST 2011

Shirley,  Thanks for this info! This confirms that I made the right decision in canceling my Santa Barbara News press subscription last week. The fact that they have not deemed this issue newsworthy is not surprising to me, as I had requested to them that they stop delivering by paper rapped in plastic rain or shine. They refused, and seam to not even give the delivery personal the option of plastic or no plastic. The publishers response to me was obviously anti plastic restriction in regard to the city of Santa Barbara's interest in curbing out contribution to the Pacific Plastic Patch. But the good thing is, you folks will not get so many summaries of news items from this source via me.   Paul

To: channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 13:14:52 -0500
From: thusone at aol.com
Subject: [CINC] Albertson's is going "bagless"

 This is interesting... and not even published in our local paper yet.

As i understand below only one in our little town of Carpinteria of two stores in the whole country going

bagless as a pilot program.    Shirley

******  

Last
 Wednesday, March 2, Albertsons Director of Environmental Stewardship, 
Rick Crandall, and Carp Store Manager Ahmed Jahadhmy, met with 
representatives of our south coast environmental organizations to 
present their breakthrough pilot project: Going Bagless. 

As
 of April 27, the Carpinteria store and one other in Alpine, CA will no 
longer offer plastic OR paper bags to their customers. If successfully 
received in the communities, this pilot program could spread throughout 
Albertsons corporate family (Supervalu) and hopefully to other market 
chains.

Carpinteria
 Beautiful has offered our support to this project, one aspect of which 
is to keep you & your organization informed and to encourage your 
support and participation in helping to make this a (wildly!) successful
 pilot program.

Here are the basics:

o   March 28 (Monday) 10:00 am at the store: A media event/rally to kick off the “phase in” part of the Project. Lots of hoopla!

o   Extensive signage for store & parking lot, newspaper ads & press releases to inform the public

o   5000 free reusable bags given away during the month long lead-up to final implementation

o   A wide variety of bags to be offered for permanent sale, including a very low cost one ($.30) and a spiffy “Carpinteria” one.

o   A
 school contest to have students bring in plastic bags from home to earn
 a bench (recycled plastic) and other goodies for their schools.

o   Full implementation to take place April 27th. (Bye bye single use bags!)

How can you help?

o   Come
 to the kick-off rally. There will be good media coverage (remember, 
this is one of only two stores in the country chosen to pilot this 
program!). A great opportunity to demonstrate that critically important 
community support.

o   Write
 a letter (or email) of support from your organization, giving 
Albertsons permission to use your org’s name in their outreach campaign.
 (Address below)

o   Inform your membership! Help get out the word.

o   Once the program gets under way, support it with letters to the editor.

o   Let the other stores know how much you’d like to see them follow suit.

If
 you have comments or questions or further ideas, please feed them back 
to me and I’ll direct them accordingly. Albertsons specifically asked 
for our questions/concerns in order to help them be prepared. 

Bottom
 line: here’s a major corporation that really seems to be walking the 
walk. Thanks for getting out there and helping to support their efforts!

-Donna Jordan, Carpinteria Beautiful

Albertsons corporate contact:                    

Rick Crandall                                     

1421 S. Manhattan Ave

Fullerton CA 92831

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