Designer Bags for Your Groceries

Paper or Plastic? The question that everyone receives at the end of the check out line at your local grocery store. Many people have started to give a different answer. "I brought my own". The truth is plastic bags are one of the largest contributors to waste in our landfills, and there is anywhere between 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags produced each year. Many think that the plastic bags are recycled, but the truth is only 1% actually make it through the process. So where do the bags go? Plastic bags end up in our land fills and pollute our planet. A study done in 1975 by the U.S. Academy of Natural Sciences verified that 8 million pounds of plastic has been dumped into our oceans, which has had a huge impact on wildlife and natural ecosystems. So many people have been taking action to eliminate their consumption of plastic bags. Their answer is canvas, or sustainable bags that are reusable. This new idea, has created a market for for reusable bags, in which some specialty brands have appeared. One company, Baggu, has created a line of nylon bags, which appear to be more stylish than your normal grocery bag. They target on foot shoppers in urban areas, along with suburban shoppers, with their universal light weight design. Each bag costs about 8 dollars, and they are offered in an array of vibrant colors. Now why spend 8 dollars on a colorful bag, if the boring ones are free? There are a couple reasons. First many retailers and grocery stores offer a 10 cent refunds for using your own bags, which will pay back for the bag in a couple months. Another reason is by not using plastic bags, the average person will save 6 bags a week. This number may not sound extreme, but if one out of every five Americans used a sustainable bag they would save 1,330,560,000,000 plastic bags in their lifetime. One person might not make a drastic impact, but together we can make our planet a cleaner, and more eco-friendly place, one bag at a time.

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