In 2009, our companywide recycling rate was 45 percent and we are actively working to improve this
figure. That year, we recycled 211,600 tons of cardboard, which helped save approximately 5,122,026
trees, 1,470,000 gallons of water, as well as, 1,890,000 cubic yards of landfill space.
Publix offers in-store recycling of paper and plastic bags at all of our retail locations. Not only can customers drop off any grocery paper bag or plastic shopping bag for recycling, they can recycle plastic sleeves from dry cleaning and newspapers.
In addition, we recycled 7,000 tons of plastic, which combined with our cardboard recycling, saved approximately
621,330 barrels of oil.
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