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08/31/2007

Reusable shopping bags are in demand

Reusable shopping bags are a really big deal now. The national grocery chain Whole Foods began selling good-looking cotton shopping bags by London designer Anya Hindmarch for $15 this month. In many stores the bags sold out in a matter of hours.

It may be the cute, environmentally sensitive message “I Am Not a Plastic Bag”, that did the trick or maybee it was Hindmarch’s name. Cute, colorful, message bearing and fashion forward.

The bags came out in limited edition. They were sold on a first come, first serve basis with only three bags per customer. When the bags went on sale in Taiwan last June, they created a stampede.

In Western New York, the bags made of differing designs and materials are readily available at Tops and Wegmans as well as smaller outlets for 99 cents and up.

The single use, biodegradable-resistant plastic bags are getting a really bad name even though their use is at an all-time high. In the United States, people use 1 million of them every minute. The Washington, D.C., Worldwatch Institute has reported that Americans annually discard 100 billion plastic bags.
Measures to ban them are being considered all over the country. San Francisco already bans their use in large supermarkets and other stores. Want to know more about our range of reusable bags, please visit http://flickr.com/photos/suncorp

 

 

Comments

I love the idea of the re-usable bag it is great!!!
Can I get a pictures of the bags??
And what kind of fabric did you used and what about the printig the screen, the ink used for that????.
Tnanks, I love EARTH and I care...
Best Regards.
Alexandra D.

Posted by: alex | 03/23/2008

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