AUSTIN (KXAN) — H-E-B will give away 250,000 reusable luggage throughout Texas to have fun Earth Day on Friday.
Customers purchasing at H-E-B, Central Market, Joe V’s Smart Shop and Mi Tienda can obtain one complimentary bag starting at 1 p.m., the launch mentioned. The bag is produced from recycled plastic bottles.
This yr’s Earth Day bag is impressed by the theme “For the Love of Texas” that includes a number of Texas-native vegetation and animals. McAllen native Julia Rojas, an H-E-B worker who has been with the firm for 13 years, designed art work for the bag, the launch mentioned.
Since 2008, H-E-B has given out almost three million reusable luggage. More Earth Day luggage might be purchased for $1.50.
In 2021, H-E-B joined the How2Recycle program to “to let customers know if the packaging can be recycled, which parts are recyclable, and importantly, how to prepare material for recycling to reduce contamination,” H-E-B’s web site mentioned.
H-E-B mentioned it recycled greater than 636 million kilos of cardboard, plastics, workplace paper, meals waste, metallic, and truck tires final yr. The grocery chain mentioned its recycling efforts saved the equal of 11 million bushes, 1.6 million barrels of oil, and sufficient vitality to energy greater than 83,000 houses for a whole yr.
