Recently Wal-Mart introduced their own reusable bag which is made out of plastic bottles. I know Wal-Mart gets a lot of flack about their business practices, but I do have to give them credit in trying to be more environmentally friendly.
Cool things about this bag:
*Only $1
*Estimates show that each reusable bag will eliminate the need for at least 50 plastic disposable bags over its 5 year lifetime. If they sell all two million bags in the first product offering, Wal-Mart will avoid having to produce 100 million disposable plastic bags, which would require the use of 1,185,000 pounds of plastic resin.
*Each of the black reusable bags are made with recycled polyethylene terephthatlate (RPET) plastic generated from approximately four soda or water bottles.
*About the size of a regular paper bag, the reusable bags are expected to hold approximately the same weight as 2-3 regular, disposable plastic bags.
*When the bag wears out, customers can return it to their local Wal-Mart store for recycling.
Did You Know?
* Today, only about 1% of plastic bags are recycled.
* A single sturdy, reusable bag needs only be used 11 times to have a lower environmental impact than using 11 disposable plastic bags once.
* When one ton of plastic bags are reused or recycled, the energy equivalent of 11 barrels of oil are saved.
*In New York City alone, one less grocery bag per person per year would reduce waste by five million pounds and save $250,000 in disposal costs.
(*info provided from Wal-Mart)
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