Reusable Shopping Totes: For the Fashion Forward or the Frugal
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Make a Statement with Reusable Shopping Bags!
Plastic can take 1000s of years to break apart (it never biodegrades), and can hurt wildlife.
The production of paper bags creates 70% more pollution than the production of plastic bags.
12 million barrels of oil are used yearly to make plastic bags, but 14 million trees are cut down to make paper bags.
...and the list goes on.
The best choice is to seek out reusable alternatives and to be sure to reuse and recycle the rest.
We'll show you where to get fun & fashionable bags.
We'll point you toward some cost effective totes.
We'll even show you how to make your OWN bag...if you are even a little handy with a sewing machine.
Cool Crochet Bag
Fashionable & Fun Bags
We found some neat bags at Think Green, Consumers.They have all sorts of colors and patterns. They even have biodegradable "poop" bags, if you're in the market.
Fun Bags with a Statement!
Do Your Pets Make You Breakfast? Tote Bag
Price: 17.99 
Save a Chicken Tote Bag
Price: 17.99
Vincent Van Dogh Tote Bag
Price: 17.99
Fashionable & Frugal Shopping Bags
Check Out this Deal
3 Insulated Aqua Color Tote Bags + Reusable Grocery Tote Bag 6 Pack Combo
Amazon Price: $18.90 (as of 01/08/2010)
This is a really nice set. Keep your groceries cold in the car with the 3 cooler bags, plus carry lots of stuff with the other 5 reusable totes.
More Great Bags
Make Your Own Tote Bag
- Make-it-Easy
- Step-by-step illustrated instructions for making a basic tote bag, reprinted with permission from the book Hold It! How to Sew Bags, Totes, Duffels, Pouches, & More, from Make It Easy Sewing & Crafts.
- How to Make a Tote Bag: 12 steps (with pictures) - wikiHow
- wikiHow article about How to Make a Tote Bag.
- Ooh! Pretty Colors: Esther's Tote Tutorial
- Ooh! Pretty Colors is devoted to fabric art of many kinds.
- Lazy Girl Blog
- 1 Hour, 1 Yard of fabric, and you'll have a tote bag.
More Reasons to Use Tote Bags
- It helps save the earth
- It keeps you from obsessively stashing 100s of plastic bags, trying to convince yourself that someday they will come in handy.
- You can fit a lot more stuff in a tote bag than in a standard grocery bag.
- You don't have to worry so much about the bag ripping.
- Most grocery stores actually give you a few cents back just for using your own bag!
Where to Buy Reusable Bags
Suggested by Readers Like You!
Please share your links to fashionable, inexpensive, or FREE tote bags. Also to any patterns to make your own.
Promotional Cooler Bags
Promotional Insulated Bags, Promotional Cooler Bag more...3 points
EcoGreenBags
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Do you have a pattern for making a bag you'd like to share?
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- Gmomofive Gmomofive Jul 20, 2009 @ 4:16 pm
- You are a featured lens on Green Tips- Quick Fixes, Easy, & Long Haul Choices! this week.
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- TheGreenerMe TheGreenerMe Feb 22, 2009 @ 3:48 pm
- Nice work, welcome to a Million Ways to Go Green!
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- starsam starsam Feb 13, 2009 @ 4:44 am
- Your lens would be a great addition to the 'Fashion - Fashion Models' Group
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Feel free to add it anytime!
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