ENVIRONMENTAL
BENEFITS
· If around 1% of America's food shoppers used a Shop & Carry®
food wagon,
approximately 56 Million paper bags will be saved per year.
· Plastic bags are also unnecessary when using the Shop &
Carry® food wagon.
A reduction in the use of plastic bags will reduce our landfill problems.
· When the consumer owns his/her own food wagon, less litter will
accumulate in parking lots because flyers, advertising brochures, coupons
and newspapers will not be left behind.
· Shop & Carry® can be used to keep empty recyclable cans
and bottles.
This will keep your recycles neat, organized and ready to return to supermarket
service centers.
· Hopefully, by the end of this decade, numerous types of containers
will be returned for refilling, reuse and finally recycling under the
future "Dual System" laws. The Shop & Carry® makes returning
such items effortless.
· Energy will be saved from "less packaging" with the
Shop & Carry® food wagon providing the long sought after substructure
needed! Besides fruits and vegetables going directly into the top container
without any plastic bags, the following becomes feasible:
Stores that sell products that are unpacked still have to provide plastic
bags to the customer in order to transport the amount they decided to
buy. Just as the Shop & Carry® food wagon carries empty returnable
bottles and cans to the store for deposits, customers will bring clear
empty containers in their wagon . These containers with their empty weight
imprinted on the front, can be filled with coffee, sugar, beans, cereal,
and so on. The supermarket no longer has to supply plastic bags to package
the unpacked product! Now add up the energy savings associated with just
these three examples:
Less cardboard cereal boxes - Less cans for peanuts - Less jars for
pickles
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