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Why Are Plastic Bags Being Banned

Why Are Plastic Bags Being Banned?

You’re likely to take home plastic bags from virtually any and every establishment you shop at. Convenience stores and gas stations readily bag up multiple items in plastic bags. People rarely use paper bags at grocers like Walmart and Kroger, leaving you with five, 10, or even more plastic sacks. Anytime you order takeout, you’re also likely to receive your order in a – you guessed it – plastic bag.

Plastic is such a popular material because it’s cheap to produce, versatile, and convenient. Unfortunately, however, plastic is made primarily from fossil fuels. Further, plastic doesn’t readily biodegrade. Thin layers of plastic that “Walmart bags,” as they’re called in the Southeast, require anywhere between 10 and 1,000 years to decompose organically.

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Why Keep a Clean Parking Lot?

Keeping a clean parking lot year-round is one of the smartest choices a business can make for their employees and customers. A clear parking lot will give off a good first impression and will help make the property safe. Business owners, property mangers, and landlords spend a lot of money keeping their property in good shape, but maintenance is always a good investment. A clean outside area can prolong the life of asphalt and parking lot striping.

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Why Parking Lot Cleaning Is Important

The Importance of Parking Lot Cleaning

Making sure that your parking lot is looking neat and tidy is not only a good management practice, it also helps solidify your brand and plays a crucial role in positioning your business. Every day we put in a lot of effort when we are interacting with customers to make sure that we give the best results possible and leave a lasting impression. What we do not realize is that it is not just what we do that the customers take away from interaction. A customer will notice every little detail, consciously or subconsciously, and the parking lot of a business is most likely the first point of contact they have. Remember the saying “first impressions count”? Well,  in this case, it most certainly rings true. Whether it is the parking lot of a restaurant, building complex or mall, a debris-filled parking lot always makes the customer think that the business is unfit for their custom and can force them to make judgments. These judgments can be on the quality of service, trustworthiness, professionalism, cleanliness, attention to detail, and it can even result in the making inference on how much you care about the environment.
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Why Don’t We Recycle Everything?

First impressions are critical, so ask yourself, “What do potential clients/customers see the first time they pull up to my business?” If the answer is a poorly maintained, litter-strewn parking lot, you may be in trouble even before that individual walks through your door. Because bottom line, your brand speaks to your customers, and your parking lot speaks to your brand. The last message you want to send is lazy, inept management.

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Fast Food Garbage Makes up Half of Street Litter

Fast Food Litter Equals 50 Percent of the Garbage on Streets

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The Pacific Gyre (i.e. Great Pacific Garbage Patch) is almost as large as Texas. Approximately 3.5 million tons of plastic pollution enter the GPGP, of which 80 percent come from land. Within a six-month period, Clean Water Action (CWA) gathered street litter samples from a small number of locations in four California cities to learn about the origins of pollution ending up in the Bay Area.
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