Product Reviews, Waste free
10 Ways reusable Eco Bags trump plastic bags
Apr
We are so delighted to see how many of our incredible customers are working to reduce waste – and how many reusable cotton bags are being employed out there in New Zealand stores to fight the ocean of single-use plastic waste that humans are generating. Thank you for doing your bit!
You’ll be winning too, when you use reusable cotton bags from EcoSaint to shop and store your produce – here are our top 10 reasons why reusable eco bags are better.
EcoSaint bags are better for your food
1. Your fruit and veg stays fresher and crisper!
When produce is harvested it begins to release a gas called ethylene. If the fruit and vegetables are in plastic bags or glad wrapped, the ethylene gets trapped and the produce begins to sweat, creating dewy moisture and accelerating the spoiling process. If the ethylene is free to disperse, the fruit and vegetables will stay good for longer. You can separate produce that is sensitive to ethylene gas, like strawberries, from the ethylene producers (eg apples and pears).
2. You can preserve your fruit and veg for longer
Reusable cotton bags like Eco Saint allow produce to breathe, and also absorb any excess moisture that can be detrimental to freshness. Some produce lasts longer if moist, like leafy greens. You can lightly dampen the bag with moisture to keep the greens crisper and fresher longer.
Separating different types of produce helps slow down premature spoiling.
3. Food smells better
Avoiding ethylene build up and spoiling means fresh tasting greens without that odd ‘plastic bag’ smell!
4. Organise your veges in the crisper easy to find what you need
With multiple bags you can keep different foods separate, to find what you need faster and keep your fridge tidy!
EcoSaint bags are better for our world
5. Better for our oceans
The odds are high that rather a large chunk of the many of miles-wide plastic masses in our our oceans are single use plastic bags, used for less than an hour, that will last as long as a thousand years.
6. Well, you know – reusable!
Literally reusable over and over and over – and every time you save on the petroleum extraction, and energy for mass production, and carbon miles of transport across the oceans (bags made in China travel over 10,000 km on average) just to carry your shopping home and be binned.
7. No sulphur dioxide
Burning plastic bags releases sulphur dioxide, one of the planets nastiest pollutants.
EcoSaint bags are better for you
8. Eco-cred
It’s much easier to flirt with the Eco Babe in the organic section of the vege aisle if you have a resuable cotton bag casually slung over your shoulder!
9. Guilt free shopping
No more sinking feeling as the check out operator stacks bag after bag with your purchases. Hold you head up high!
10. It feels good to go eco
The natural fibres of Eco Saint reusable cotton bags are soft to the touch and feel lovely.
