H-E-B School Recycling Program
Are you interested in earning money for your school and helping the environment, too? Don't throw away those plastic grocery bags! Your school can sign up to collect H-E-B plastic grocery bags and earn money for every pound you accumulate. The bags you collect are then turned into trash bags, which can be purchased at H-E-B. It's simple and helps your school and the environment as well. Now that makes good sense!

Find out more about the program and how you can participate:

Here's how the program works.
Here's what happens to the bags once you collect them.
And here are the products your bags are recycled into.


Here's how the program works…

The H-E-B recycling program not only provides schools with an opportunity to earn money, but also encourages and educates children about the importance of recycling.

1. Schools who are enrolled in the recycling program receive up to $1.00 per pound for collecting used H-E-B grocery bags. Schools must register to participate by calling Enviro-Bag® at:

Toll Free: 1-800-866-3954
Monday thru Friday
8 a.m. to 4 p.m. (Central Time)

2. Enviro-Bag® will provide the school with special recycling liners and instructions for properly packing the used plastic grocery bags.

3. For every pound of clean and properly packed used plastic grocery bags a school returns for recycling, the school will receive up to $1.00.

4. The reprocessed recycled bags are used to produce new Enviro-Bag® trash and tall kitchen garbage bags. These bags are sold at most Texas stores. Please contact your local H-E-B store to check on availability.


How to prepare your plastic bags for recycling…



1. Save the plastic grocery bags from your shopping trips to H-E-B.




2. When you have saved about 50 bags, roll them from the bottom up to the handles, then tie them up with separate bags on each end.

3. Now take your bags to school where they will be shipped to Enviro-Bag® and manufactured into trash bags you can use in your own home!