Electronic Recycling @ Whole Foods

The Whole Foods on Briarcliff Road will host a Spring Cleaning Electronics and Junk Collection from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Earth Day, April 22.

Spend some time Spring cleaning your home and bring your unwanted junk to the store. In an effort to increase proper disposal of waste Green Junk Removal will be here to collect your unwanted tires, batteries, paint cans, electronics, air conditioning units, bathroom fixtures, lawn and garden equipment, and much, much more. For more details on what items will be accepted please visit www.greenjunkremoval.com.

Eco-Friendly Eating On-the-Go

For those having trouble eating green on the go, guests can take their pick from the many Whole Foods Market and Chipotle Mexican Grill locations around the city for earth-friendly eating any day of the week.

With its recent commitment to partner with local farmers, Chipotle Mexican Grill is the first and only national restaurant company committed to buying local on a significant scale. Chipotle purchases 25 percent of at least one of its produce items for each of its 730-plus restaurants from small and mid-sized local farms.

The produce, which includes romaine lettuce, green bell and jalapeno peppers, and red onions, arrive from local farms when seasonally available.

This latest initiative is part of Chipotle's Food With Integrity philosophy,a way of doing business that is better for consumers, farmers, and the environment. The company's other accomplishments in this arena include serving more naturally raised meat (all pork and chicken and nearly 60% of beef) than any other restaurant company in the world; serving 30% organically grown blackand pinto beans; and only using cheese and sour cream made with milk from cows that are NOT treated with the synthetic hormone rBGH (recombinantbovine growth hormone).

All locations feature a focused menu of burritos,tacos, burrito bowls (a burrito without the tortilla) and salads made from fresh, high-quality raw ingredients that are good to go.

Chipotle has 12Atlanta-area locations; visit www.chipotle.com for more information.

Whole Foods Market (www.wholefoodsmarket.com) the leading natural and organic foods supermarket, offers a variety of to-go meal options, so guests can indulge in environmentally friendly fare on the run.

These options are housed within a large prepared foods section that includes an extensive salad bar, deli, sushi or seafood bar and multiple ethnic food selections among many other hot and cold plates in which all of the ingredients are natural or organic and as many as possible are locally grown.

And best of all, the supermarket chain's new compostable, all-natural bulrush to-go containers keep shoppers environmentally conscious on the fly. Unlike traditional paper and plastic packaging, these containers are made from annually renewable bulrush, which is a tall marshplant that grows abundantly in the wild and is more commonly known as cattail. Not only are these containers highly functional for temporary food storage and may be used in a microwave, they degrade in a compost pile in approximately 90 days!

Whole Foods Market has also banned plastic grocery bags and strongly encourages reusable grocery bags by providing affordable bags and by paying at least a nickel-per-bag refund to customers.

FEED bags now at Whole Foods

FEED Projects, a socially minded business with hopes of feeding the world, and Whole Foods Market, the leading natural and organic foods supermarket, announced today the new FEED 100 reusable shopping bag is available exclusively at Whole Foods Market stores in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Each bag purchased for $29.99 will help provide 100 nutritious meals to hungry school age children in Rwanda through the United Nation World Food Program’s (WFP) School Feeding Program.

When a Whole Foods Market customer buys a FEED 100 bag, $10 will be donated by FEED Projects’ foundation, FEED Foundation, to the World Food Program’s Rwanda School Feeding operation; with the remainder going to cover the costs of the bag and oversight of the program by the FEED foundation. To further help the initiative, Whole Foods Market is not making a profit by offering the bags to its shoppers.

Designed solely for Whole Foods Market by Bush, the FEED 100 reusable bag is made of organic cotton and natural burlap and is produced with a commitment to ensuring fair treatment of workers, livable wages, paid overtime, and safe and clean working environments. It is a lightweight, fresh white tote that collapses easily into its base, which is a zippered rectangular burlap pouch emblazoned with the FEED logo and the number 100. 

In 1994, Rwanda lost 800,000 men, women and children to genocide; as a result, the nation’s economy and social structures were decimated. Since 2003, the World Food Program has provided free, nutritious school lunches to Rwanda’s children in 300 schools in the most food-deprived areas. Each hot, nutrient-rich meal draws boys and girls to school, helps them learn, and may be the only meal they have all day. School attendance has grown from 63 percent to 93 percent, and to help close the educational gender gap, girls with good attendance may receive extra rations to take home to their families.

The FEED 100 reusable shopping bags can be found at the checkout counters at all Whole Foods Market stores. For more details on the bag, visit www.FEEDprojects.org. For a listing of stores, visit
www.wholefoodsmarket.com.