With Earth Day just around the corner, we’re looking into exactly why cotton drawstring bags are the ideal choice for our environment. Here are just a few reasons:
- Producing one cotton bag is the equivalent of producing 400 plastic bags—so you’re not only saving on energy, you’re potentially keeping 400 plastic bags out of landfills.
- A cotton bag, when used for groceries, can replace the estimated 1,000 plastic bags that each family brings home every year.
- Plastic bags make up 12 percent of the trash collected at every
Here’s the key: Cotton bags are most effective for the environment when reused. So get crafty! Click through more blog posts for ideas of how we’ve used our cotton bags.
