Recycling Efforts
In 2008, our companywide recycling rate was 42 percent and we are actively working to improve this
figure. That year, we recycled 215,000 tons of cardboard, which helped save approximately 3.7 million
trees, 1.5 billion gallons of water, as well as, 645,000 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 brand plastic shopping bag for recycling, they can recycle plastic sleeves from dry cleaning and newspapers.
In addition, we recycled 6,700 tons of plastic, which combined with our cardboard recycling, saved approximately
2.4 million barrels of oil.
