Helping women one
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bag at a time
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All of our bags are made from 100% recycled
or repurposed material. This is material that
would end up in our landfills. We collect it
locally from furniture and clothing
manufactures and have these wonderful
shopping bags made from them.
Our bags are the most eco-friendly bags
available because they are made out of
scrap textiles, not plastic, they can be cold
water-washed and reused for
years.
INTERESTING
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FACTS
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Researchers found large numbers of
bacteria in all the recycled bags they
tested, and even detected E.Coli in 8% of
them.
One laundry cycle would reduce the
bacteria by 99.9%.
Since plastic bags cannot be washed cloth
bags are saferThe average American
throws away about 68 pounds of clothing
and textiles per year.
Americans piled up 12.7 million tons
of textile waste in 2009, according
to the Environmental Protection
Agency.
Just 13.8 percent of clothing and
footwear is "recovered" for reuse.
The rest ends up in landfills or
incinerators.
About 85 percent of this waste goes
to landfills where it occupies about 4
percent of landfill space
Our Mission Statement
1. To help women who are recovering for
some form of domestic violence. We are
either providing them with a steady
stream of work, paying them a living
wage, helping to provide the tools and
training to begin a sewing business.
2. To reduce the solid waste that is going
into our land fills by repurposing clothing
and textile remnants.
Values
We value making a difference in the the
world around us.
We make recycled shopping bags and day
bags but our business is freedom!
Poverty and a lack of options for women
of all ages feed the Mexico boarder towns
domestic violence epidemic.
We are a bag manufacturing business
whose purpose is to provide these women
with a way out of domestic violence.
Women are employed on the basis of their
need for a job, not the skills they bring to
it. They are trained, and paid a living wage.
Best of all they begin their journey to
freedom.
Our recycling values are identical with
EPA’s
“overriding goals...to encourage the
trends toward (1) increased use of
recycled materials in products and (2) the
increased recovery of material for
recycling.”