ReJAVAnate takes burlap from coffee roasters that would be otherwise sent to landfill, work with The ARC which serves individuals with developmental disabilities to hand make the bags, and sell them to individuals and organizations who want to make a statement about reducing paper and plastic bag consumption.

These bags address three important issues;
1). They reduce a significant source of landfill waste
2). They provide jobs to those that often have difficulty finding jobs
3). They provide a good way to reduce our paper and plastic bag consumption

Did you know!

- Coffee is the second largest commodity in the world
- 800,000 tons of burlap are put into landfills every year
- The ARC helps 140,000 people find housing and employment
- US consumes over 380 billion plastic bags, sacks and wraps
- 14 million trees were cut to produce 10 billion paper bags for grocery stores in the US

Helps address each one of these issues - buy ReJAVAnate bags!

Contact Info:
http://rejavanate.com
877.725.0859 x804
rejavanate@renovos.com

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Recycling information will be distributed along with a limited supply of FREE REUSABLE CLOTH BAGS.  Don’t forget to bring in your extra plastic bags to Bag Central Station, “Where plastic bags belong”

Excellent post from Leader-Post

Plastic bags and the environment

The Canadian Plastics Industry Association appreciates the opportunity to ensure that decisions made about plastic shopping bags are made based on fact and good science, not erroneous information.

The writer of a recent Minus 20 article (”Go green with cloth bags”, Leader-Post, Aug. 5), repeats a number of myths — stating, for example, that research shows that plastic bags are bad for the environment.

Not true. Research (Recycle Quebec, Paris Life Cycle Study, the EPA) in fact shows that plastic shopping bags are one of the best environmental choices for carry bags; second only to reusable bags.

Plastic shopping bags are less than one per cent of landfill, less than one per cent of litter and, because they are inert, they actually help fight global warming because they do not break down if they are landfilled. This means they do not emit methane, a potent greenhouse gas, that paper and other organic materials do when they degrade.

Plastic shopping bags are also made from natural gas, that same clean energy we use to heat our homes. And their production represents less than one-tenth of one per cent of Canada’s petroleum production annually.

And, since plastic bags are 100-per-cent recyclable, they do not continually use oil. Recycled bags can be remade into new bags or into other plastic products like siding, decking, laminate sub-flooring or drainage pipes. London Drugs, Safeway, Superstore, Sherwood Co-op and the Ukrainian Co-op all offer in-store bag recycling in Regina. To find out where plastic bags can be recycled in Regina, log onto www.myplasticbags.ca

The writer is also wrong on bag bans, which have been proven worldwide not to work. As the experience of Taiwan and Ireland shows, they actually contribute to more, not less, resource consumption and more greenhouse gas emissions, particularly if people switch from plastic to paper bags.

There are no simple solutions to these problems, but a good place to start is with the straight facts. Let’s work to improve plastic bag re-use and recycling, not destroy it.

Cathy Cirko

Cirko is vice-president, Canadian Plastics Industry Association.

Mississauga, Ont.

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In her essay, titled “Use of Plastic bags creating nightmare for our environment” So explains the simple lesson of basically teaching humans to clean up after themselves. If everyone is just using up materials and forgetting to recycle, then it is the same principle as littering their own house and then seeing one day the wastes piling up to the roof.  For the full essay click here.

Way to go Amber! Amber Shriner a twelve year old entrepreneur created a reusable bag with three layers of insulation. For every “Kool Bag” sold Shriner will donate 10 percent of her profit to the 2009 Winter Special Olympics in Boise, Idaho.

For the full story click on the link below.

http://www.2news.tv/news/local/26299714.html