Filed under: shopping bags
Somewhere in the northern Pacific floats a non- biodegradable petrochemical blob that’s twice the size of Texas. Much of this deadly mess originated when someone innocently took home their shopping in a plastic bag.
In the U.S. alone, we throw away 100 billion plastic bags each year — the equivalent of 12 million barrels of oil. Yikes!
Paper or Plastic?
The energy and other environmental impacts embodied in a plastic grocery bag is somewhat less than in a paper grocery bag. But paper is easier to recycle, being accepted in most recycling programs. The recycling rate for plastic bags is very low.
So, which is better for the environment? Neither! The fact is that the difference between paper and plastic RECYCLING is small compared with the REUSING bags.
Join our free Connection Club and receive two Organic Cotton Shopping Bags. Keep them with you for shopping. Be keen in their reuse and help keep our environment clean.
Filed under: shopping bags
For our regular customers we’re now inviting you to join our Connection Club at no charge.
Membership will entitle you to two free organic cotton shopping bags. Plus your purchases will earn you free credits for use in the Organic Connection Deli.
Additionally, every time you shop at Organic Connection without requiring new bags, we’ll donate ten cents towards equipment for the organic farming program at Green Chimneys Children’s Services.
Filed under: shopping bags
As a conscientious eco-business, we’ve been considering the ways that we can minimize the environmental impact from the consumables provided in our store. It is staggering to realize the quantity and cost of grocery bags and take-out containers that we provide to our customers.
Paper? Plastic? What are the better options? Perhaps as our customers you can help us.
Paper. We offer unbleached paper grocery bags. A nice natural resource, but a lot of energy is used to produce these, often, single-use items. We love it when customers bring them back to the store to re-use.
Plastic. We’re currently using plastic bags that are bio-degradable. These are less expensive to purchase than paper, but are produced from petroleum. We love it when customers being them back to the store to re-use.
What about multi-use bags? At recent trade shows we’ve attended we’ve seen numerous offerings of re-usable bags. This includes strong polyester shopping bags that are now being offered by many natural food stores. Great, they’re re-usable many times – but they’re still made from plastic. So, we thought about it and we think we’ve gone a few steps better.
How cotton bags? Better still – how about Organic Cotton shopping bags? Well, we’ve got them. They were made for us in India using organic cotton. And they’re great – strong, pretty and practical. We hope you’ll love them and come back with them many, many times.
