Our custom reusable bags:
Custom reusable bags are taking over at local grocers, shopping centers, and farmers markets as consumers become increasingly aware of the environmental impacts of plastic bags and their unnecessary use of precious resources like water, petroleum, and natural gas. Custom reusable bags are also an excellent way to share your organization's commitement to higher environmental standards because they typically offer large imprint areas for your custom logo or message. The Green Benefits team are masters at helping organizations choose the perfect custom reusable bags to help raise environmental and social awareness with causes important to their stated mission. They are also highly favored gifts and fundraiser products because they are so functional and relevant in daily life. Consider a stylish custom reusable bag from Green Benefits and join the movement to reduce plastic in our waste stream.
It can be argued that plastic bags are reusable as garbage can liners, lunch bags, or for picking up after pets. The fact is no matter the good intentions, a plastic bag has a short life before it eventually finds its way into a landfill or worse yet, disappearing into the natural environment. In either case a plastic bag will require nearly 1000 years to photodegrade. Even biodegradable plastics often do not reach the required breakdown temperatures in landfills. The greatest way to limit the harmful effects of plastic in our ecosystems and to wildlife is to greatly reduce the use of plastic in our daily lives. Having several custom reusable bags on hand for your daily shopping or transport needs is a very easy way to contribute to reducing plastic waste. Another good reason to invest in custom reusable bags is there are quite a few cities across the U.S. looking at voted measures that would ban plastic shopping bags within city limits. Like other conservation and recycling efforts, early-adopters are often a step ahead of much needed regulations.
A gyre is a slow moving surface current in the ocean that can change with surface temperatures and winds. There are five major gyres in the world's oceans with The North Pacific Gyre being the largest. Plastics and many other forms of consumer waste enter the ocean and other water sources by various means including sewer drainage, barges, shipping freighters, and many others. A great percentage of the waste that enters the oceans find their way into some of these slow moving currents eventually creating a conglomerate of trash much like a floating landfill. Gyres move in spirals so all the trash collected in its currents curl into the center of the spiral where it is churned, shredded, or in the case of plastic, photodegraded. These smaller bits of waste matter sink into the ocean where they enter the food chain as they are eaten by smaller and larger organisms alike. Check out 5gyres.org for more detailed information.