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Thursday, December 20, 2007
Are plastic grocery bags an endangered species?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Whole Foods has just stopped using plastic bags at its flagship store in Austin, Texas, and will offer customers a choice of recycled paper bags or reusable, more rigid plastic totes (you’ll have to buy the reusable containers). If that test works out, Whole Foods will do the same thing at its other stores across the country, according to the AJC’s sister paper in Texas, the Austin American-Statesman.
Already, some shoppers are choosing to bring their own cloth bags or hard plastic totes to Atlanta grocery stores. San Francisco has banned plastic bags, and some other cities are considering it. Ikea charges customers a nickel for every plastic bag they use, to encourage customers to use alternatives.
If you’re interested in learning more about why plastic bags are considered environmentally harmful, check out Sacking the Environment, put together by a group of University of Georgia students.
What do you think about supermarkets dropping the use of plastic bags? Would you continue to shop at a store that no longer offered them? Are you already taking reusable containers to the store to carry groceries? Should governments tell retailers what type of bags they can offer customers?
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A Fondness for Fondue
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
January’s issue of Food & Wine boasts a very retro offering of the French version of Southern greens and black-eyed peas for New Year’s: fondue. Gooey, sticky gruyere cheese with hard salami, pickles and bread cubes for dipping.
Other than the Melting Pot chain, Atlanta doesn’t boast a lot fondue spots, even though a “comeback” of this 70s suburban trend has been predicted for several years.
Is there fondue to be found in Atlanta?
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