Why would you pay $20.00 for shopping bags? It sounds crazy, but its all in how you look at it. We view your purchase as an investment and with any investment you expect a reasonable rate of return. While this investment doesn't pay you a monetary return (unless you live in a city or country that has a plastic bag tax), it pays dividends in other meaningful and powerful ways.
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Environmental dividend
This is the big one and the obvious one. By reducing the number of plastic bags consumed you are helping control litter, pollution, chemical deposits in landfills, chemicals leaching into our soils affecting plants, wildlife and water supplies. Maybe you don't believe in global warming, but you have to admit that these are real issues. We don't have unlimited landfill space so reducing what we put in is always a smart idea, especially if its harmful and non-biodegradable.
Fact: It is estimated that over 8 billion plastic bags enter the waste stream in the US every year, including ones reused as trash can liners or used for pet clean up.
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Energy dividend
If you live in America, you hear a lot about our dependence on foreign oil. Plastic bags have petroleum in them, require natural gas to make and are transported over the ocean and across the country by diesel powered engines. By reducing the number of plastic bags you use, you are reducing the amount of fossil fuel you are using and in a way the amount of foreign oil America is consuming. It takes about 1 gallon of crude oil to make 100 plastic bags. The average American family uses about 600 plastic bags a year, so you personally could save 6 gallons of crude oil.
Fact: If 1% of the U.S. switched to Nu Bags, we could save 18 million gallons of oil annually, which equates to about 428,571 barrels a year. Not bad for such a small change to our daily lives.
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| Plastic bags in a landfill |
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| Plastic bag waste in China |
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Economic dividend
Our bags are made in America. Your purchase is supporting not one, but two, maybe three or four American companies. The companies that supply our materials, do our sewing, print our logos, maintain our website, process your purchase, they are all American. We are all tired of hearing about the outsourcing of jobs to countries like China and India and we are all painfully aware of the pitfalls, like lead paint in children's toys and toxic ingredients in pet food and baby formula. If we are tired of it, let's do something about it. Buy American, support your country and your fellow workers. As consumers we have the power to force companies to make products here and keep jobs at home. You may have to pay a little more, but you get a better product and you are truly helping the U.S. economy.
Fact: In 2007, 40% of all consumer products were imported into the United States from China.
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Charitable dividend
We donate 1.0% of our net sales to organizations dedicated to protecting the environment and wildlife around the world. That means a portion of your purchase is going directly to help save animals, rebuild habitat, purchase open space and fund reforestation projects. That feels good doesn't it? You are buying something that has an immediate positive impact on the environment.
Fact: In the past three years Conservation International and its partners have conserved over 143 million acres of tropical forest, this is equivalent to taking 10 million cars off the road.
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| Plastic bags pose a serious risk to marine wildlife |
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So when you add it all up, you really are doing a lot with that $20.00 investment and don't forget that you are getting 3 lightweight, tough, good looking multi-purpose Nu Bags. That's a good deal! What are you waiting for? Buy your set today!
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