Indian Wells City Hall to Accept Plastic Bags
Indian Wells, California residents now have a new location to dispose of their plastic bags: a bin at City Hall, located at 44-950 Eldorado Drive.
There are currently no facilities to recycle the bags, so the city will be reusing them in food banks. Indian Wells grocery stores have also been stocking the bins.
Nearby Palm Springs is considering an outright ban on plastic bags, citing that 19 billion are produced annually in California and their light weight makes them difficult to contain in a landfill.
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sweisbart
posted on September 8th, 2008 at 9:10 am
The City of Indian Wells is indeed collecting Plastic Bags! The plastic bags are then being collected by a local Food Distribution organization: Hidden Harvest, Inc. This organization’s clients use these bags for the fresh healthy produce that they pick up weekly. The plastic bags therefore, are reused!
The supermarkets in the area also collect plastic bags as required by the California Integrated Waste Management Board. The desitnation for those bags is unknown.