Penny Watson | posted on May 22, 2008
Recycling advertising banners to make shopping bags isn’t new, as Swiss Freitag and UK-based Banner Bags—among others— have been doing for some time. What’s interesting about a new effort from Vancouver’s Commercial Drive Business Society, however, is that the district’s advertisers themselves are the ones doing the recycling. …read full discussion
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Best of the Green Web | posted on May 14, 2008
There’s always so much more happening online than we can capture here, so for the sake of filling gaps in our coverage of how the Web is talking about green issues, here’s the weekly round-up… …read full discussion
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NOTCOT | posted on May 13, 2008
I think this is the most interesting Reusable Bag story yet… Target teams up with Newsweek and Terracycle to create reusable totes out of fused target plastic bags! Finally – a recycled reusable bag that looks like the bags it came from and is replacing! …read full discussion
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Becky Stern | posted on
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Cindy at Skip to my Lou made this tutorial for sewing a reusable oilcloth lunch sack. She’s included a pattern, detailed instructions, and excellent photographs.
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NOTCOT | posted on May 5, 2008
Happy Early Earth Day (it’s tomorrow) – we have a sneak peek from the girls at Delight who are touting this new bag line as the next big thing in the reusable bag market. They were even nice enough to send over a set for me to play with early to share my thoughts… (so my pics of it in comparison to others, on the next page!). These new RuMe bags are larger than any of the others i’ve come across, which can be good and bad… good: they hold more in less bags! bad: they make me look like a midget when carrying them full… while they are also lightweight – their material is a bit on the crunchier side (mom of the NotEmpire, and our official reusable bag tester explained the difference as… the envirosax felt more like an umbrella material, whereas the RuMes were a bit more like a raincoat)… but i do like the velcro strap that ties these together, and that it hangs INSIDE, unlike the envirosax which leave the button dangling as you carry the bag. Anyhow…. there are two sets of colors, the “Sillicon Valley†greys and blacks, and the “Spring in New York†set of colorful brights. See below for more pics of these in context! …read full discussion
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