AVEYOU Beauty Boutique Eco Friendly Shopping Bag

Good Monday! I found this fantastic website called Avenue You Beauty offering customers these fabulous Eco-Friendly Shopping Bags. These shoppers are available in your choice of three different colors of white, green and black as well as four different sizes in extra small, small, medium and large. The prices depends on the size starting at $1.00 to $2.50. Fabulous! Even better if you purchase any product on the site you get one free! A must have for the environmentally conscious consumer and it's totally reusable. I'll let the product specifications and description from the site speak for itself. GO GREEN Stay beautiful! XOXO

Why Use a Reusable Bag?:

There are countless reasons why you as an every day American should start to use a reusable bag. We have studied article after article, paper after paper, and blog after blog. Other than the fact that AVEYOU Beauty Boutique & AveYou.com has the sharpest reusable bags around, you are now on the cutting edge of a unique Grassroots movement that is sweeping the nation! It is our belief that within five years over 90% of the country will be using a reusable grocery bag! Its time to wake up and smell the coffee, we say!

Here are a few of our favorite facts in regards to why we are urging you to make the very important choice to put down your paper and plastic and protect your Earth today! It isn’t too late. In fact, we are just getting started!

• A Plastic bag takes 450 years to biodegrade. Imagine 10 billion of them!
• The production of Paper bags causes 70% more pollution than Plastic.
• When Plastic “photo degrades” it ends up in our oceans. Incidentally, it appears much like a plankton, and is then consumed by fish. Fish eat it, and it winds up on your dinner table. YUCK!!!
• The recipe for making paper bags starts with 1 part pulp, 400 parts WATER. What a waste of water!
• The recycling of plastic emits heavy metals into the air causing extreme air pollution
• An average person will use over 350 bags in a single year!
• In New York City, one less grocery bag per person would reduce waste by five million pounds and save $250,000 in disposal costs!
• In 1999 more than 14 million trees were cut down to produce 10 billion paper bags that were used by Americans that year!

The facts are staggering and we could go on and on as to why it is so imperative that you stop using paper and plastic now.

• Ultra durable, non-woven polypropylene bag. Polypropylene is meant to feel like soft cloth and can hold up to 40 lbs.
• Bag Colors: Green, Black, or White
  
• Bag Dimensions:
  
  • Large 12.5" w x 8.5" d x 13.5 h.
  • Medium 11" w x 7" d x 11.8" h
  • Small 9.5" w x 5.5" d x 10.4" h
  • Extra Small 4.7" w x 4.3" d x 6.69" h
• Bag weight - 100 grams
• Plastic inserts for bottom sturdiness and easy wipe free.

25 Reasons To Go Reusable:

1: A plastic shopping bag can take anywhere from 15 to 1000 years to decompose. In a compressed landfill, deprived of atmosphere to help them biodegrade, paper bags don't fare much better.	2: Plastic bags don't biodegrade, but are at risk for photo degradation, light exposure dissolving them into toxic polymer particles. Most often, when this happens, it happens in the ocean.	3: The cost to recycle plastic bags so outweighs their value that most recycling facilities will not take them, leading more and more to just be thrown out with the rest of the trash.	4: According to the Wall Street Journal, only 1% of plastic bags are recycled world-wide; the rest are left to live on indefinitely in landfills.	5: The United States alone uses approximately 100 billion new plastic bags per year - the average person goes through between 350 and 500.
6: Thanks to their light weight, plastic bags are the debris most likely to fly away from landfills, settling instead in trees, storm drains, beaches, and the ocean.	7: Public agencies in California alone spend over $300 million on coastal litter clean-up per year.	8: Plastic bags make up over 10% of washed-up debris polluting the US coastline.	9: According to the British Antarctic Survey, discarded plastic bags have been found as far north as the Arctic Circle and as far south as The Falkland Islands.	10: An estimated one million birds and 100,000 turtles and other sea animals die of starvation each year after ingesting discarded plastic bags which block their digestive tracks.
11: Made from petroleum products and natural gas, plastic bags utilize nonrenewable resources, ultimately helping to drive up fuel prices.	12: It takes 12 million barrels of oil to produce the amount of plastic bags the US uses per year.	13: Think paper bags are better? The United States cuts down 14 million trees per year simply to supply the demand for paper shopping bags.	14: It requires 13% more energy to produce one single paper bag than to produce two plasticbags.	15: Made with chemicals processed at high temperatures, paper bag production releases many toxins into the atmosphere at much the same rate as plastic production.
16: Paper bags weigh nearly ten times their counterparts in plastic, requiring more fuel to ship them out to stores.	17: Despite their high recyclability factor, research shows that only 20% of paper bags end up recycled while the rest share a fate with their plastic brethrens.	18: In landfills, paper bags produce over twice as much atmospheric waste as plastic, making them questionable at best as the superior choice for the environment.	19: Ireland, the first European country to impose a tax on them, has decreased plastic shopping bag consumption by 90% since 2002, reducing overall plastic bag usage by 1.08 billion.	20: In the past five years, over a dozen countries have banned or put a tax on disposable bags.
21: Reusable bags come in all sorts of smart and stylish shapes and prints, making your shopping trips a little less routine and a little more fun.	22: Some grocery stores even offer discounts for customers who bring their own bags - now that's incentive!	23: In New York City, one less grocery bag per person would reduce waste by 5 million pounds and save $250,000 in disposal costs.	24: The average reusable bag has the lifespan of over seven hundred disposable plastic bags.	25: Over a lifetime, use of reusable bags by just one person would save over 22,000 plastic bags. Isn't that even better incentive?

 

Availability: AVEYOU.com Eco Shopper 3 colors, 4 sizes $1-$2.50