Chinese Shopping Bag
December 7th, 2008 by allbiztoworldRecycled Shopping Bags
There have been a lot of questions about the state of the recycled shopping bag. What’s funny is that the people that are being asked don’t have the 100% recycled shopping bags that www.discountshoppingbags.com has. Our bags are certified 100% recycled consisting of 95% post consumer waste and 5% plant scraps. That sounds like they are pretty recycled to me. As you will see, we stock 4 sizes of 100% Kraft recycled shopping bags. Consisting of the [5.25×3. 25×8.5]; the [8×5x10]; the [16×6x12] and the [16×6x18.5], these brown Kraft shopping bags should fit any and all uses you might come across. We here at www.discountshoppingbags.com invite you to click on these bags and give them a try. Not only are you getting these bags at our usual lowest price possible but you are helping in keeping our Earth green.
Arts and Crafts
Discount Shopping Bags has just the right bag to help package the arts and craft market. Our parent company has been in business for over 58 years giving Discount Shopping Bags the knowledge to steer you in the right direction. Experience at Discount Shopping Bags tells us that our [ 13 x 6 x 15.25 ] Kraft Shopping Bag would be a perfect choice while a [ 12 x 2.75 x 18 ] Kraft Merchandise Bag would be a perfect companion bag for those smaller lighter weight products.
Bakeries
Discount Shopping Bags is your choice when looking for our Shopping Bags in White and Kraft . With the combined selling experience offered at Discount Shopping Bags it would be our pleasure to direct you to either our white or kraft shopping bag or for a bit of color our wide array of tinted shopping bags.
Plastic was first introduced by Alexander Parkes in 1862, and the name was coined by Leo H Baekeland in 1909.[1] Plastic bags are made from a polymer polyethylene, which consists of a long chain of monomers called ethylene. Ethylene is derived from natural gas and petroleum, and it wasn’t until 1977 that polyethylene was used in forms of plastic grocery bags.[2] The real change in grocery bags didn’t start until 1982, when the two of the nation’s largest grocery companies Safeway and Kroger started replacing paper bags with more affordable plastic bags.[3] From then on, plastic bags have been our #1 choice of taking our daily groceries from the store, to our vehicles, and finally to our homes.
Sturdy reusable shopping bags are EPA environmentally superior to single-use plastic shopping bags.[citation needed] A sturdy, reusable bag needs only be used 11 times to have a lower environmental impact than using 11 disposable plastic bags (providing you somehow dispose of your household waste without using bags). Reuse and recycling of plastic bags is encouraged, however reduction of use lessens overall environmental impact. Paper is accepted in most recycling programs while the recycling rate for plastic bags is very low, research from 2000 shows 20 percent of paper bags were recycled, while one percent of plastic bags were recycled.[17] Shopping bags can also be reused as trash bags, storage bags, etc. However, bags that are reused as trash bags typically still go to landfills. Current research demonstrates that paper in today’s landfills does not degrade or break down at a substantially faster rate than plastic does. In fact, nothing completely degrades in modern landfills due to the lack of water, light, oxygen, and other important elements that are necessary for the degradation process to be completed.[17] Responsible solid waste disposal is encouraged.
If you’re looking for plain canvas shopping bags, you’ve come to the right place!
Stop contributing to our ever expanding landfills, save our trees and prevent the death of hundreds of thousands of sea turtles, whales and other marine mammals who eat discarded plastic bags mistaking them for food. Give this environmentally friendly gift to your family and friends as a holiday or birthday gift.
Encourage everyone you know to start carrying these reusable plain canvas shopping bags … a small step can make a HUGE difference.
Our bags are made of 100% natural, unbleached cotton. The fabric weight is a strong 10 ounce canvas duck and can easily hold 40 pounds (19 kilos).
Message on Bag:
Americans consume 100 billion plastic shopping bags every year. Over 500 billion are consumed worldwide and about 4 billion become general litter.
Plastic bags don’t “biodegrade”, they break down into tiny toxic bits which contaminate soil and water. They can take 1,000 years to break down.
Fourteen million trees were cut in 1999 to produce the ten billion paper grocery bags used by Americans that year.
Each ton of recycled paper can save 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, three cubic yards of landfill space, 4,000 kilowatts of energy and 7,000 gallons of water.
One simple paradox of life in the modern world is that our garbage simply disappears. But of course it really doesn’t, it just goes someplace else. Someplace usually out of sight and thus, out of mind. But it is piling up someplace and the pile is getting very very large! If there really was a single pile of the world’s garbage from simply the past year, it would be nothing less than horrifying. But there isn’t one pile, there are many thousands of piles. Somehow that makes us less concerned. But do we really want these piles of garbage to continue to grow in-perpetuity and become our legacy to future generations?
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