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Plastic bags will cost you a nickel at Ikea

by Pat Coate | February 22, 2007
It's a small step, but we feel ... it reduces our impact on the environment."
- Pernille Lopez, president of Ikea North America

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA - Customers leave Ikea's 29 U.S. stores every day with Nordic-named housewares and assemble-it-yourself furniture, but the Swedish home furnishings retailer wants to see shoppers walk out with one less thing: a plastic bag.

The intention is to essentially eliminate the use of plastic bags.

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