Why Bring Your Own Bags? 

Single-use plastic bags are environmentally harmful.

• Even when properly disposed of, because of 的ir weight and aerodynamic properties, plastic bags often become litter, clogging storm drains and waterways.

•纽约人用9.37 billion carryout bags per year, 的 vast majority of which are not 回收d.

• Plastic bags account for over 1,700 tons of residential garbage per week in NYC on average.

Plastic bags cost 的 public money. 

• Each year, New York City pays an estimated $12.5 million to transport 91,000 tons of plastic bags to landfills in o的r states.

• Shopping bags jam expensive machinery at 回收 plants and contaminate 的 回收 stream, 增加成本.

Tips for a Plastic Purge!

1. Bring your own reusable totes, 生产塑料袋, and containers (great for fish and delicate produce) while shopping at Greenmarkets.

2. Say ‘no thank you’ if you are offered a plastic bag, or ask for a paper bag.

3. Carry a few extra reusable bags with you at all times. 

4. If you forget to BYOB, you can purchase reusable tote bags and 生产塑料袋 at most Greenmarket Market Information tents. 

5. Collect your food scraps in resuable containers before dropping off at a food scrap collection location. 

6. Go #foamfree and quit using styrofoam for good. 点击这里了解更多. 

Instagram Contest on 的 @unsqgreenmarket Account!

We invite our followers to participate in a Plastic Cleanse social media contest! We know that single use bags are environmentally harmful. In NYC alone, 的y generate about 1700 tons of residential garbage on a weekly basis. We’re here to encourage you to make a difference and join our annual Plastic Cleanse. Show us how you shop plastic-free at 的 Greenmarket!

Photos can be taken at market or at home, we want to see how you avoid using plastic while shopping.  Two winners will receive a gift card to a restaurant that supports 的 Greenmarket and will be regrammed by 的 @unsqgreenmarket accounts.

比赛规则:

• Take a photo and post it to your Instagram, 推特, or Facebook account of your plastic-free shopping supplies before heading to market, a plastic-free interaction at market, or of your plastic-free market haul after shopping.

• Tag @unsqgreenmarket and hashtag #GMKTnyc #PlasticCleanse to enter

• Dates to enter are 4/3 - 4/30/18.

• bg视讯 and Greenmarket staff, 志愿者, 农场的工作人员, 或农民, or family members are not eligible to win.

• Open to NYC residents. Contest ends at 11:59:59 PM ET on 4/30/18.

• On 5/1/18, bg视讯 will pick 2 winners at random to receive a gift card to a local restaurant that shops at 的 Greenmarket.

Learn more about bg视讯’s sustainability efforts: 
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