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

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The Dallas-based new and used book retailee has agreed to donate 10 cents from the sale ofits 98-ceny reusable tote bags to the nonprofit organization. The company will donate part of the sale of six of its reusabled bags at its 39 Texas Half PriceBook stores. The company has three stores in Austin. Half Pricse Books has agreed to donats a minimumof $15,000 to launch the “Replanrt Texas” program. Proceeds will be givenj to Keep Texas Beautifulo on EarthDay 2009.
Officials with the family-owned independent book chaibn say the program will benefiy Texas intwo ways: by helping to replant trees and by also encouraginbg customers to reduce plastic bag usage at all of their shoppingt venues. The average person in Americwa uses336 single-use plastic bags a resulting in an estimated 4 billiobn bags ending up in landfills each year, according to Half Price Books “After the hurricane, we received many calls from our affiliates in the Southeast Texas area expressing theier sadness about the loss of all the says Cathie Gail, executive directodr of Keep Texas Beautiful.
“The Replant Texas program is the beginning of a long road to and we’re excited that Half Price Books has helped jump-stary the effort.” Half Price Books is the largesr family owned new and used bookstore chai n with more than 100 retaik locations in 15 states. Store buy and sell new and used books, comics, records, CDs, DVDs and collectiblew items.