Aeon turns to sugarcane-based polyethylene for grocery bags

In Japan, Aeon Co. announced that they will use sugarcane based polyethylene plastic grocery bags at their outlets.  The polyethylene is sourced from ethanol made from the waste liquid that is left over after extracting the sugar from sugarcane juice.  The bags will be sold from all of their 750 supermarket stores at a cost of five yen apiece.  Aeon has been selling in the neighborhood of 170 million plastic bags a year to their shoppers.