Reusable Bags
The Eco Benefits of Custom Eco Packaging
Consumer packaging produces millions of tons of waste every year and savvy modern companies are taking steps to reduce that toll by using custom eco-packaging. International athletic wear manufacturer PUMA took nearly two years to come up with their “clever little bag” design that replaced the iconic red shoebox. The new packaging concept saves tons…
Read MoreNon-Woven Reusable Bags…Toronto's Answer to the Plastic Bag Ban
Toronto, Canada recently became the largest municipality to ban plastic shopping bags from grocery and shopping markets earlier this year. As the ban date of January 1, 2013 gets closer and closer, retailers are scrambling to find viable alternatives. Many retailers already offer some type of reusable bag for sale or use them as promotional…
Read MoreIntroducing The Non-Woven Reusable T-Shirt Bag from ICEGREEN Reusable Bags
At ICEGREEN, we’re constantly coming up with new and innovative solutions to consumer packaging issues. Let us introduce you to our latest product: the Non-Woven Reusable T-shirt Bag. With our Non-Woven Reusable T-shirt Bags, you can create a traveling advertisement customized for your business that’s inexpensive and environmentally friendly too. Now you can offer your…
Read MoreStone Paper Bags: Completely Tree Free!
Toronto has just become the largest North American city to ban plastic bags from grocery markets, but there’s an underlying controversy with respect to one of the alternatives. Sure, you can offer customers reusable bags, but will they remember to bring them? And if they don’t, then what will you offer – paper bags? Paper…
Read MoreReusable Bags: The Perfect Alternative to Plastic Bags
Toronto City Council has voted to ban plastic grocery bags as of January 1, 2013, making it the largest municipality in North America to do so thus far. As plastic bags will soon go the way of the dodo in the city of Toronto, reusable bags will become the carrier of choice for most consumers…
Read MoreReusable Bags: Plastic, Paper or Cloth? The Controversy Continues
Just as the city of Los Angeles moves to ban plastic bags in supermarkets all together – becoming the largest U.S. city to take that step – Toronto’s mayor has vowed to do away with that city’s five-cent per bag tax. In addition to Los Angeles, other large U.S. cities to make the move include…
Read MoreThe Zero Waste Grocery Store
Most grocery stores have a bulk food section of perhaps a couple of rows and limited to a few categories of dry goods. Even specialty stores like those in Canada’s Bulk Barn chain offer a fairly narrow range of dry goods and products like peanutbutter and honey. Imagine though, that concept taken store- and product-wide,…
Read MoreTips From Health Canada On Cleaning Reusable Bags
All bags used to transport food items including single-use plastic bags, reusable grocery bins and reusable grocery bags can harbour bacteria if they are not taken care of properly. This means that they should be washed on occasion. – Health Canada recommends ensuring that you always use reusable bags that are machine washable. – Reusable…
Read MoreL.A. County says goodbye to plastic grocery bags
California has long been known as leader in “green” practices among the United States – and it continues to lead by example today. As of July 1, a ban on plastic grocery bags will go into effect for unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County. County supervisors championed the bag ban as a way to eliminate…
Read MoreWill you still use reusable bags if the plastic bag fee is cut?
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford said last month that the five cent fee for single-use plastic bags in the city could be gone by the end of the year. The five cent fee was initially implemented to persuade shoppers to make the switch to more environmentally friendly reusable bags. The bylaw has been in place since…
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