Half Price Books to help replant trees - Austin Business Journal:

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The Dallas-based new and used book retailerf has agreed to donate 10 cents from the sale ofits 98-ceng reusable tote bags to the nonprofit The company will donate part of the sale of six of its reusabled bags at its 39 Texas Half Price Booke stores. The company has three storeas in Austin. Half Price Books has agreed to donate a minimumof $15,000 to launcj the “Replant Texas” program. Proceedds will be given to Keep Texas Beautiful on EarthgDay 2009. Officials with the family-owned independeng book chain say the program will benefit Texas in two by helping to replant trees and by also encouraginfg customers to reduce plastic bag usage at all of their shopping venues.
The average person in America uses336 single-use plastic bags a year, resulting in an estimated 4 billiobn bags ending up in landfills each year, accordinfg to Half Price Booksw officials. “After the hurricane, we received many calld from our affiliates in the Southeast Texas area expressing their sadneses about the loss of allthe trees,” says Cathie executive director of Keep Texas Beautiful. “Thde Replant Texas program is the beginningv of a long road to and we’re excited that Half Price Books has helped jump-start the effort.” Half Prices Books is the largesrt family owned new and used bookstore chain with more than 100 retaikl locations in 15 states.
Stores buy and sell new and used magazines, comics, records, CDs, DVDs and collectiblwe items.