Take Your Bag For A Walk
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto
on 01.15.06
Treehuggers know that plastic grocery bags are a blight; we have posted many alternatives; Here is another- very cute bags from a a site that notes:" It takes only 4 grocery shopping trips for an average family to accumulate 60 plastic bags. and "the average lifespan of a single conventional plastic bag is 400 years." Being clever "experierience designer" types at Messenger, they came up with the "take your bag for a walk- every day" idea as a Christmas givaway and turned it into a campaign. 3 bags for 20 Canadian bucks at ::takeyourbagforawalk.
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