Giant Eagle’s Blue Bag Shortage Sparks Opportunity for Curbside Recycling Services

Giant Eagle’s temporary loss of the blue bags it uses to bag groceries may have created a recycling snag for some consumers, but those little bags cause other snags that have recycling advocates calling for an end to plastic altogether.

Giant Eagle spokesman Dick Roberts said the switch to tan bags started after Hurricane Harvey interrupted production of blue bags at Giant Eagle’s supplier in Texas and that the blue bags should return in January.

But the timing provides an opportunity for the city and other municipalities to commit to bins, said Justin Stockdale, executive director of the Pennsylvania Resources Council in Pittsburgh.