Target will begin paying customers next month to bring their own shopping bags from home, USA Today reports.

Starting Nov. 1, Target customers will get a 5 cent discount for every reusable bag they use at check-out.

Target tested the concept in a 100-store pilot program earlier this year and found a 58 percent reduction in the number of plastic bags used.

A scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council says the incentive, along with a similar one by CVS drugstores, could keep billions of plastic bags from polluting the environment.