{"id":312874,"date":"2019-04-23T16:11:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T14:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=312874"},"modified":"2019-04-23T16:11:25","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T14:11:25","slug":"woolworths-to-introduce-new-plastic-bag-free-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/312874\/woolworths-to-introduce-new-plastic-bag-free-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"Woolworths to introduce new ‘plastic-bag-free’ stores"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a six month trial in four of its Western Cape stores, Woolworths has announced that it will be introducing three more \u2018plastic shopping bag free\u2019 stores across the country.<\/p>\n

The company also plans to roll out its new low-cost reusable bag to more stores in the coming months, it said in a statement.<\/p>\n

From May, the reusable shopping bags will be rolled out to 15 additional Woolworths stores, the group said.<\/p>\n

Maroun Square<\/strong> in Johannesburg, Moreleta Village<\/strong> in Pretoria and Delcairn Centre<\/strong> in Durban will also become entirely free of single-use plastic shopping bags.<\/p>\n

“Apart from the obvious benefit of helping customers change to reusable bags, the project has other important spin-offs,” the company said.<\/p>\n

“The reusable shopping bag\u2019s fabric is made locally out of recycled plastic bottles and is recyclable.<\/p>\n

“To date the production of the low-cost reusable bag has resulted in over 129 000 plastic bottles being removed from South African waste streams to be recycled and made into the bag\u2019s fabric.<\/p>\n

Woolworths said that it expects this figure to increase significantly with the rollout to 15 more stores.<\/p>\n

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The additional Woolies stores that will start selling the low cost reusable bag from May 2019 include:<\/p>\n