Bring Your Own Bags

Grant Application Period Closed

Sustainable Stores Grant for Retail Communities

Thank you to all who applied. Grant awards will be announced in late July.

Communications Toolkit
Branding, social media, and visual elements for your messaging.

BYOBags Event and Materials Request
Online form to request BYOBags materials or county participation in your event.

Information to help retailers reduce plastic bag usage.

Easy ways for shoppers to remember to bring reusables and kick the plastic bag habit.

Find out about Cuyahoga County’s Plastic Bag Ban.

Why is eliminating our use of single-use plastic bags important?

Our natural resources, like Lake Erie, the Cuyahoga River, and our 3 major watersheds, are essential to our community health and economic vitality.
Our access to clean drinking water is vital. Microplastics negatively affect our drinking water quality.
As Climate Change affects the world more and more, our economic growth is at risk from wasted natural resources and declining environmental health.

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