GET A BAG!

Free Enviro Eco Culture tote bag with a $15 donation to:

Become an Enviro Eco Culture member

Enviro Eco Culture and YOU can help reverse some of the negative impact disposible plastic and paper shopping bags have on the environment.

  • Make the change to using canvas shopping bags.
  • Reduce, Reuse, Recycle all forms of plastic bags.
  • Say NO to the million-a-minute plastic bag Eco Nightmare!

Introduced 25 years ago, single use plastic bags are now consumed at an astounding rate of approximately 500 billion per year globally, or 1 million per minute. It is estimated that 1% or 5 billion plastic bags end up as wind blow litter each year. These bags that take up to 1,000 years to biodegrade, often wind up in waterways or the landscape, becoming eyesores and eventually degrading water and soil as they break down into tiny toxic bits.

Their manufacture and disposal also uses large quantities of non-renewable resources, especially petroleum, a key ingredient in plastic. Large amounts of global warming gases are released during their production, transportation, and disposal. Environmentally, disposable plastic bags are a serious problem. Hundreds of thousands of marine animals, including endangered sea turtles, die every year when they eat plastic bags mistaken for food. Paper bags are not the answer, since independent studies show they have roughly as many negative impacts as plastic ones.

The negative impacts of disposable bags could be reduced easily and significantly by the use of reusable bags. They are more efficient for shopping as well. They don’t break. They carry more items then plastic and paper. You don’t have to empty the trash as often. Reusable bags save money for retailers, which in turn could help the price of goods to drop. Reusable bags are a win-win situation.

Enviro Eco Culture needs to raise money to buy these bags to sell in order to raise consciousness for Enviro Eco Culture, solicit volunteers, raise capital for the organization and most of all to reduce the use of toxic plastic and paper bags. The Sierra Club has accomplished some of these goals when they sold backpacks. It is a successful fundraiser.