NEW YORK, Oct. 8, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Perf Go Green Holdings, Inc. ("Perf Go Green") (OTCBB:PGOG) (www.perfgogreen.com), a marketer and distributor of biodegradable plastics, announced today that its 13-gallon kitchen trash bags and 30-gallon lawn and leaf bags are on retail shelves at more than 6,000 Walgreens locations throughout the U.S.
"Our roll-out at Walgreens took place right on schedule in mid-September," said Chairman and CEO Tony Tracy. "We are thrilled that our biodegradable bags are available nationwide with this leading retailer, offering consumers an easy, cost-effective way to reduce plastic waste and benefit the environment as they shop for household necessities. Reception by consumers has been enthusiastic and, in fact, we've already received three re-orders from Walgreen's.
"From the get go, Perf Go Green's goal has been to offer a 'green' plastics platform to households and business all over the U.S. With the completion of our launch at Walgreens, as well as the many other retail launches and commercial conversions we have on tap for this fall, we're poised to make that goal a reality. Perf Go Green is helping to lead the way in the 'go green movement,' which analysts project will become a $500 billion market in the U.S. by 2009."
Walgreens is the nation's largest drugstore chain with fiscal 2007 sales of $53.8 billion.
Founded in November 2007, Perf Go Green premiered at the March 2008 International Home and Housewares Show in Chicago, where its products received an honor for their design quality and innovation.
Perf Go Green products incorporate recycled plastics that are combined with an Oxo-Biodegradable proprietary application method to produce the film for the bags. Based on environmental claims statements made by the manufacturer of the Oxo-Biodegradable applied to our bags, when discarded in soil and exposed to the presence of microorganisms, moisture and oxygen, we believe Perf Go Green products biodegrade, decomposing into simple materials found in nature within two years, as opposed to regular plastics, which can take hundreds of years to break down. Through this process and the use of recycled plastics, the company effectively removes plastic waste from the environment. In addition, Perf Go Green kitchen trash bags utilize a unique patented dispensing system that stores the bags on the bottom of trashcans and dispenses them one at a time.
According to Landor Associates, the "go green movement" is poised to become a $500 billion market in the U.S. by 2009.
About Perf Go Green
Perf Go Green, Holdings Inc. (OTCBB:PGOG), www.perfgogreen.com, is a New York-based biodegradable plastics company. The corporate name reflects the "Go Green" mission from inception to create a Green company for the development of eco-friendly, non-toxic, food contact compliant, biodegradable plastic products as a practical and viable solution to eliminating plastic waste from the world environment.
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