The Tote Bag or the Plastic Bag

Would you like an alternative to the Plastic Bag? Nowadays, increasing number of people use the tote bags instead of the plastic bags, which is friendly to the environment. They have found that using plastic bags is really big mistake, for this behavior make much white pollution to the natural environment. It is lucky that most people have realized that the human beings are part of the nature, and we should do some useful things to the environment, and do not do harm to the nature. Tote bags are easy and don't cost the earth. Tote bags are simple, practical and a cost-effective way to help protect your environment. Tote bags have many uses including grocery shopping bag, library bag, lunch bag, beach bag, or convention bag.
"ONE cloth bag will replace at least 1000 plastic bags over its life." One famous person once said. So why do we must use the tote bag instead of the plastic one? Here are a few plastic bag facts as following. Two fewer plastic shopping bags per person per shopping trip would reduce Canadian plastic waste by a million kilograms in one year. Approximately 2 million barrels of oil are used in plastic bag production each year in Canada. It takes only four grocery shopping trips for the average family to accumulate 60 plastic shopping bags. Canadians take home more than 55 million plastic bags from grocery and convenience stores every week. Less than one in two hundred of these are recycled. The average family uses 400 to 500 plastic grocery bags per year and that these are rarely recycled. That's a good reason to find a more ecologically sound answer to the shopping bag dilemma. No, not those ugly cream cotton bags with logos, but hand made, attractive, strong and reusable TOTE BAGS. Unlimited use TOTE BAGS!! Did you know that wrapping paper is not recyclable because of the colored inks? Think of all the holiday paper and cello wrap you see in stores during the holiday seasons---it all goes in the landfill. Many people keep and reuse paper gift bags and boxes. The alternative -- cloth reusable gift bags available in many sizes, colors and Christmas designs. Now that the plastic bags have made so much harm to the nature, we should abandon them and use the tote ones for instead.
There are many kinds of tote bag styles that you can choose. Most of the materials are cotton or cotton polyester blends, and they are full of rich fantasies. There are some heavier upholstery type materials available for custom bags. They are made from a variety of prints and solids, fully lined and each with a pocket for keys or cell phone. Some are embellished with beads or appliqué. Can easily be used for purchases in a store, take to the beach, carry your shoes or lunch or schoolbooks. They are very great in the car when traveling to hold all those extra goodies that you might want while on the trip. Or purchase a Tote bag and fill it with goodies for that special someone. Your bag does double duty as gift-wrap and used for a tote bag.
Actually, everyone should do it from the small things, for example, when we go to the supermarket, we should choose the bag shopping. And if we all do like this, we will have a nicer world.