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City Council is expected to approve a voluntary plan to get major local retailers to reduce the usage of plastic bags. The stores (H-E-B, Randall's, Target, Wal-Mart, Walgreen's and Whole Foods) would agree to purchase less than 1,280,000 pounds of plastic bags and recycle 600,000 pounds of plastic bags in the first half of 2009, compared to the 1,569,744 pounds they purchased the and 215,301 pounds they recycled in the first half of 2006.