Shopping

Shopping bags

Make sure you always have a bag with you when you go shopping, whether it’s in your handbag, your backpack, in the glove compartment or trunk of your car or attached to your key chain; even a secondhand plastic bag will do just fine. It’s better than no bag at all, and you save a bag from going to the landfill. If, however, you want to go a step further and invest in the purchase of reusable bags, we have a few options for you.

Ideally, you want to prioritize materials that close the loop of the bag’s life cycle and go back to the Earth, and are not just recycled into a lower quality item (i.e., down-cycled). Cotton, jute and hemp are all natural materials that can be composted back into the Earth.

Our organic cotton bulk shopping tote

Large reusable bags

Great for carrying everything, ideally they should be able to fold up easily and neatly for storage in a pocket or purse. 

Our organic cotton shopping tote

Mesh bags

The beauty of organic cotton mesh bags is that they breathe, and you can see the contents (just like, um, plastic bags). And they are so lightweight they can easily be popped in a pocket. 

Our large organic cotton mesh bag

 

Bulk bags

These allow you to bulk shop and completely avoid the plastic or paper bags (e.g., at zero waste food shops). Our bulk bags are utterly unique in design because they have round bottoms, enabling you to prop them open hands-free, making filling them up easy and mess-less. As well, there is a bulk bag specifically designed for flours. It has a main bag with a draw string and an inner bag (ever so slightly smaller to fit within the main bag) that also has a drawstring and a finer weave to prevent flour from seeping out. 

Our large organic cotton flat bottom bulk bag