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Green Shopping Bags - Opportunities, Trends and Challenges
The Market Need: Billions of plastic shopping bags are thrown away each yearThe Mission: Replace disposable plastic shopping bags with renewable, reusable bags
Knowledge to Start: Materials, manufacturing
Consumers and governments are driving a rapidly growing movement away from disposable plastic bags to more eco-friendly alternatives. Reusable bags that don’t get thrown away probably are the greenest option for shopping bags. If you already own a store, selling bags with your logo on the side might be a savvy green business move, and giving them away might even pay off. With that bag, you buy increased brand recognition for your company, you associate your brand with being green, and you may create increased loyalty.
At first, people might worry about how they look carrying their own bags. Cool designer bags will help overcome this concern. One of the neat things about bags is that they are so simple and yet people are endlessly creative with them. The opportunity is to create not just bags, but green fashion statements.
Opportunities for green shopping bags include
• Producing low-cost compostable shopping bags
• Creating reusable logo bags for stores to give away
• Designing novel bags for shopping
• Developing fold-up bags that are easy to take with you
• Producing homemade bags from recycled material
posted by Ecacofonix at
6:25 AM
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
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