19 Sep 2022 --- Closed Loop Partners’ Center for the Circular Economy and the Consortium to Reinvent the Retail Bag partnered with large US retailers to test out its new Beyond the Plastic Bag. The bag is reusable and provided by retailers for customers to grab instead of single-use plastic bags. The bags were tested at select CVS Health, Target and Walmart stores throughout Northern California in 2021. The test was conducted in nine stores and five cities for six to ten weeks. The trial aimed to guide retailers on how the reusable and returnable bags would function.
