Tree planting in the bag.Tree planting is in the bag at IKEA IKEA Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd (Swedish home furnishings retailer founder's initials and location) , which is now charging a nickel nickel, metallic chemical element; symbol Ni; at. no. 28; at. wt. 58.69; m.p. about 1,453°C;; b.p. about 2,732°C;; sp. gr. 8.902 at 25°C;; valence 0, +1, +2, +3, or +4. per plastic bag given to customers to carry purchases from its stores. The goal is to get people to use reusable re·use tr.v. re·used, re·us·ing, re·us·es To use again, especially after salvaging or special treatment or processing. re·us bags and cut down on plastic bag waste. Proceeds from the campaign of up to $1.75 million will go to AMERICAN FORESTS American Forests is a nonprofit conservation organization that promotes healthy forests and urban tree planting. The organization was established in 1875 as the American Forestry Association, by physician/horticulturist John Aston Warder and a group of like-minded citizens to plant trees to restore forests and offset C[O.sub.2] emissions. IKEA is already partnering with AMERICAN FORESTS to offset the annual C[O.sub.2] emissions produced by IKEA coworkers and visitors who drive to the stores each year. IKEA estimates each store will plant about 33,100 trees annually. The trees will be planted in AMERICAN FORESTS' Global ReLeaf tree-planting projects. These projects restore forests damaged by human or natural causes. IKEA North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. has worked with AMERICAN FORESTS through its Global ReLeaf tree planting program for 10 years, planting more than 500,000 trees in environmental restoration projects. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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