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Dianna Poggetto, American River Parkway Foundation; Salim Bana, Hilex Poly; Margo Reid Brown, CIWMB, Christine Flowers-Ewing, Keep California Beautiful; Council Member Steve Cohn, City of Sacramento; Darrell Costello, Roplast; Alta Tura, Sacramento Area Creeks Foundation; Tim Shestek, American Chemistry Council
Yesterday at a Savemart Supermarket in Sacramento, ACC kicked off the second of four launch events as a partner in the “Got Your Bags?” campaign. As a part of our second launch event, partners gathered to celebrate the Sacramento leg of the event with Sacramento City Councilmember Steve Cohn.
At this event we distributed nearly 200 plastic bag holders to supermarket shoppers, making it easier for consumers to store all of their plastic bags in one place for reuse or until they can bring them back to the store for recycling.
In addition to our other campaign partners, we were also joined by Salim Bana of HilexPoly, one of the largest closed-loop plastic bag recycling companies in the United States. Located in North Vernon, Indiana, HilexPoly takes plastic bags, melts them down and turns them into new recycled bags!
We are looking forward to kicking off the campaign in Los Angeles and San Diego with our Southern California partner, Albertsons grocery stores, in late 2009.
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Tags: "Got Your Bags?", HilexPoly, Keep California Beautiful, Plastic Recycling, Public-Private Partnerships, Steve Cohn
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