Friday, April 18, 2008

Half Price Books urges DFW to vote for charity to receive $25,000 on Earth Day

By Pegasus News wire

DALLAS — Half Price Books, the nation’s largest family-owned new and used bookstore chain, is urging its DFW customers to vote online to determine how more than $25,000 it is setting aside from its current “B(eco)me Green” environmental project will be earmarked. Half Price Books has 18 stores throughout the Metroplex, in Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington, Bedford, Burleson, Cedar Hill, Frisco, Garland, Irving, Lewisville, McKinney, Mesquite, Plano, Richardson, and Watauga.

The B(eco)me Green project encourages Half Price Books shoppers to decline plastic bags for their purchases or to bring in their own reusable shopping bags instead. When they do, the company sets aside five cents for environmental charities. Those nickels add up! So far in 2008, nearly half a million customers have refused a plastic bag at Half Price Books, contributing more than $35,000 to the B(eco)me Green environmental-charity kitty.

From flickr user Sarah Naegels

If you must use plastic bags, at least recycle them.

Online voting for the first $25,000 B(eco)me Green award continues through Earth Day. Five environmental charities, selected from several dozen nominated by Half Price Books employees in 100 stores across America, are on the ballot: The Conservation Fund, Habitat for Humanity, the Natural Resource Defense Council, The Nature Conservancy, and the Sierra Club Foundation.

Website visitors can vote for their favorite once each day through Earth Day, April 22 at www.halfpricebooks.com.

In the Metroplex, more than 180,000 customers have declined plastic bags, bringing their own shopping bags or opting for the reusable, bright green ninety-eight-cent “B(eco)me Green” tote bag on sale at Half Price Books.

Source: Half Price Books

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