Trader Joe's ditching single-use plastics for more eco-friendly options

An increasing number of grocery stores are ditching single-use plastics to help curb the amount of synthetic materials that end up in landfills around the world. Trader Joe's is the most recent business to reduce plastic use in stores across the country, a move that comes after a Greenpeace initiative that garnered close to 100,000 signatures.

In 2018, Trader Joe's vowed to use more sustainable packaging to help decrease the 1 million pounds of waste it generates annually from plastics. A big chunk...