Bag Type

Facts and unknown truth

Life Span

Usage for Heavy items-Milk, soda bottles etc.

Price Per Bag

Traditional Plastic/Recycled Plastic/ T-Shirt cut

These bags are not taken seriously as they are lightweight and ultra cheap. Seen by people as worthless and don’t bother to reuse them or even recycle them. Often seen blowing away from garbage bins, trash trucks, and even landfills. One can see them swirling around the streets and hanging from trees or floating in the streams and rivers.

1   Trip

Asinglebagcan’tcarry heavy load and Cashiers MOST of the times put these in double bags.

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  Paper Bag/    Brown Bag

Better for our environment and Biodegradable and don’t end up in our ocean. BUT emits 51% MORE global warming gases.50 times MORE water pollution. Uses 4 times MORE raw material.Consumes 2 times MORE energy.

1Trip

These bags don’t have sturdy/strong handles. A single bag can’t carry heavy load and cashiers MOST of the times double bag them. Even after the double bagging the handles break once carried.

Boutique Plastic/ Recycled bag

Beautiful and impressive. Many times just land up to store home items & not used for grocery or taken back to the boutique for shopping.

PP Non-woven Bag

Very LOW resource use.

Very LOW cost.

Very HIGH reuse rate.

Possess good fatigue resistance.

Resistant to moisture.

10 Trips

These bags are sturdy enough to carry heavy loads and DON”T need to double bag them.

Costs Just a little more than the traditional T-shirt bag but can sustain at least 10 trips.