Ikea is going plastic bagless. Last year the Swedish king of oh-so-cool home economy — by various definitions — committed to cut from 70 million bags to 35 million. It passed its goal, reaching a current 92 percent reduction. Now the goal is to use no plastic bags.
Ikea has come a long way in the last ten years, and is becoming a model for other big box stores to follow. For years, I refused to shop there because of where they were getting their wood. But they have started doing a much better job of making sure that the wood they use does not come from endangered forests. The fact that they are helping to curb the “Urban Tumbleweed” blight of plastic bags, goes a long toward getting me to walk in the front door again.
Now if they only sold decent furniture, I’d be all set.
We just got an Ikea around a year ago and it has been a huge hit for the Orlando area. Most of my furniture is from there and I was always impressed that Ikea charged you around five cents per plastic bag. Five cents is cheap, but it was always enough for me to not want the plastic bag.
I think it is great that Ikea is completely doing away with plastic bags altogether. Even though they reduced their plastic bag usage to 35 million, 0 is such a better number! Go Ikea for first of all saving money from not producing plastic bags and helping saving the environment! What a combination!
Thank-you for this information, I am now a bigger fan of Ikea than I was before.
thanks good blog and post
I’m glad to hear this.
Ikea has come a long way in the last ten years, and is becoming a model for other big box stores to follow. For years, I refused to shop there because of where they were getting their wood. But they have started doing a much better job of making sure that the wood they use does not come from endangered forests. The fact that they are helping to curb the “Urban Tumbleweed” blight of plastic bags, goes a long toward getting me to walk in the front door again.
Now if they only sold decent furniture, I’d be all set.
Thanks for the post,
Adam
We just got an Ikea around a year ago and it has been a huge hit for the Orlando area. Most of my furniture is from there and I was always impressed that Ikea charged you around five cents per plastic bag. Five cents is cheap, but it was always enough for me to not want the plastic bag.
I think it is great that Ikea is completely doing away with plastic bags altogether. Even though they reduced their plastic bag usage to 35 million, 0 is such a better number! Go Ikea for first of all saving money from not producing plastic bags and helping saving the environment! What a combination!
Thank-you for this information, I am now a bigger fan of Ikea than I was before.
Kate