The Division of Environmental Quality and Carmen Safeway Enterprises have teamed up to offer shopping incentives to encourage shoppers to use reusable bags.
Today, Dec. 15, starting at 10am, reusable bags will be distributed to the first 100 shoppers who purchase $10 or more in groceries.
The reusable DEQ bag promotion is one way shoppers can protect the environment and promote sustainable living by reducing the amount of plastic bags while grocery shopping.
Each time a shopper uses a canvas or reusable bag at Carmen Safeway Supermarket with a total purchase of $10 or more, the shopper will receive an entry form for a chance to win the weekly gift certificate prize, valued at $25.
Plastic bags can last for hundreds of years and many shoppers use three or more for their groceries. It’s a major environmental problem when plastic bags end up in our marine waters that eventually lead to the suffocation of marine mammals and sea birds. On land, plastic bag litter can block drains and trap birds. They also kill livestock. Plastic bags are also commonly found in nearly all beaches on Saipan, Tinian and Rota. The bags end up in landfills and emit harmful greenhouse gases.
This promotion is part of DEQ’s Green Business Initiative.
Join the movement to protect the islands’ natural resources. Reducing one’s contribution to plastic-bag pollution is as simple as using a cloth bag (canvas) instead of wasting plastic ones. For your next trip to the grocery store, BYOB! (DEQ)
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