To: Frank Curci, Tops Markets CEO and Danny Wegman, Wegmans Markets CEO
Wegmans and Tops: Stop Using Plastic Bags!
It is our mission, as an environmental initiative, to work together with our community to ban plastic bags. Saving the world a bag at a time starts here.
Why is this important?
A single plastic bag will take thousands of years to degrade. Yet Tops Friendly Markets and Wegmans Food Markets use so many plastic bags a year it’s unbelievable. Many people don't even realize how harmful plastic bags are to our environment.
The United States alone goes through 100 billion plastic shopping bags per year. Over the course of time, they add up and have nowhere to go. These bags end up in our beautiful oceans, which now have about 46,000 pieces in it per square mile.
If that weren't enough reason to support the discontinued use of plastic bags, when they break down, they photo-degrade. Materials break down to smaller fragments which soak up toxins that contaminate soil, waterways, and animals upon digestion.
Tell Tops Friendly Markets and Wegmans Food Market, our most popular grocers in the neighborhood, to drop plastic bags. Stores around the world have seen the ugly side of plastic. In fact, many charge for using plastic bags or have just banned them altogether. Please help make our dream of saving the world one bag at a time a reality. Let's ask Tops Friendly Markets and Wegmans Food Market to stop the use of plastic bags.
The United States alone goes through 100 billion plastic shopping bags per year. Over the course of time, they add up and have nowhere to go. These bags end up in our beautiful oceans, which now have about 46,000 pieces in it per square mile.
If that weren't enough reason to support the discontinued use of plastic bags, when they break down, they photo-degrade. Materials break down to smaller fragments which soak up toxins that contaminate soil, waterways, and animals upon digestion.
Tell Tops Friendly Markets and Wegmans Food Market, our most popular grocers in the neighborhood, to drop plastic bags. Stores around the world have seen the ugly side of plastic. In fact, many charge for using plastic bags or have just banned them altogether. Please help make our dream of saving the world one bag at a time a reality. Let's ask Tops Friendly Markets and Wegmans Food Market to stop the use of plastic bags.