Walmart Puts Reusable Bags at Store Checkouts to Reduce Plastic
- Company to announce new sustainability initiatives Wednesday
- Retailer has pledged to slash its greenhouse gas emissions
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Walmart Inc. will offer reusable shopping totes at the checkout counters of all its U.S. stores for the first time as the world’s largest retailer starts to move away from the use of environmentally-unfriendly plastic bags.
The company is rolling out ten new designs, each available for 98 cents, at the bagging stations of its 4,756 Walmart-branded stores. That’s more expensive than the previous version of reusable bags that it sold -- but those bags weren’t as eye-catching and had been scattered throughout the store. The retailer will still offer single-use plastics bags and the older reusable ones.