To celebrate its decision, on Tuesday the company handed out 50,000 reusable shopping bags to customers and declared it "Bring Your Own Bag Day."
Use of plastic bags, which can interfere with marine life, has been under fire in many cities in the U.S., and is already banned in San Francisco. Whole Foods estimates it will "keep 100 million new plastic grocery bags out of our environment between Earth Day and the end of this year alone."
--Sarah Mahoney