Blue Bags Bleed Blue Bag Blood

By Margaret Lyons in News on Jun 21, 2004 5:37PM

Walgreens and Dominick's are going to participate in a Chicago-wide initiative to make recycling more popular. The two retailers will begin using blue plastic bags instead of their brownish ones to encourage Chicagoans to use the blue-bag recycling program. We have a blue-bag recycling program? Sheesh. Chicagoist is definitely going to environmental hell.

City officials hope that just having blue bags around will make garbage-producers more likely to recycle. Al Sanchez, commissioner of the city's Department of Streets and Sanitation, told the Trib that "Once they have a few of these bags lying around the house, Chicagoans might even find it pretty difficult not to recycle." Uh, right? That's the ticket? Once you have so many blue bags, you'll have to recycle? Just like once you get so fat you have to exercise?

Once you've accumulated three blue bags, let the recycling fun start! Separate clean paper, yard waste, and metals, glass and plastics; and leave that funk with the rest of the trash. Learn more about the blue-bag recycling program and admire somebody's skizills with wordart here.