Businesses in Minnesota locality unveil plastic-bag recycling initiative

Retailers in Duluth, Minn., agreed to place recycling bins for plastic bags in front of their stores as part of their "It's in the Bag" program to reduce the amount of waste in the city. "This gives us not only a market [for recycled bags] but... a system to get them from the consumer to the market," said Karen Anderson, an official with one of the program's sponsors.

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