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The Go Greener Eliminate Plastic Bags Committee is part of the City of West Lafayette Go Greener Commission initiative to increase awareness of environmental issues related to events in the area.



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Day Without Plastic Bags
April 18, 2009

The West Lafayette Go Greener Commission announces a Day Without Plastic Bags on April 18, 2009. We will give away reusable shopping bags at three locations in West Lafayette: Kroger Payless supermarket, Marsh supermarket, and Wal Mart.

Each year shoppers in the U. S. use over 100 billion plastic shopping bags. These bags have a useful life of about 1 hour and then they hang around for hundreds of years. They are a major source of litter, they harm wildlife, and they require resources and energy to manufacture. Celebrate the beginning of the week of Earth Day by vowing not to use disposable plastic bags. Stop by one of our locations to pick up your free reusable bag between the hours of 10:00 am and 4 pm. [Download the Press Release.]

Make Your Own Reusable Shopping Bag -
From a T-shirt (on the Martha Stewart website)

The Plastic Bag Monsters will be at the event staging a protest, stop by and view them!
Ways to get involved
  • Join us! Email Linda at
Why get involved?
  • Because you care about the environment!
  • A few simple changes can make a BIG difference. Not making these changes hurts our Earth.
(c) Anya, West Lafayette Go Greener Commission , 2009