“Small Change Adds Up”
Shopping bag re-use program and donation to all Fort Collins High School’s student clubs.
Donation period is 7/7/08-9/28/08.

Help FCHS while you go green!   From July 7th through September 28th, Whole Foods Market in Fort Collins will offer customers the option to donate a $.10 / bag refund to Fort Collins High School when they reuse their grocery bags.  Whole Foods Market uses 100% recycled bags & encourages customers to re-use bags for environmental reasons.This donation will be divided among all student clubs at FCHS. Last period, Poudre High School received $2493 from customer bag donations and we hope to raise at least that much for our clubs! 
  • Disposable plastic shopping bags were introduced in the late 1970s and since it takes more than 1000 years for a plastic bag to break down in a landfill, polymers of every single plastic bag ever produced still exist on our planet.  Whole Foods Market doesn’t offer these grocery bags anymore; our 100% recycled paper bags are a stronger, multi-use option.
  • As they break down, disposable plastic bags go through photo degradation – breaking down into smaller and smaller toxic particles that contaminate both soil and water, and end up entering the food chain when animals & marine life accidentally ingest them.
  • It takes roughly 430,000 gallons of crude oil to produce 100 million plastic bags, and in the US alone, about 100 billion plastic bags are thrown away each year (and only .6% of them are recycled).  

Fort Collins High School | Updated - 5/1/08

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