We are a family owned and operated business on a mission to provide simple, effective and affordable solutions for families looking to go green.  Here are some facts that inspired us to go green... and hopefully you will do the same!

Green Facts

It is estimated that 53% of plastic shopping bags are distributed into circulation via supermarkets and grocery stores.

In the US, 100 billion disposable shopping bags are consumed a year. This is 200,000 bags per minute!

Paper or Plastic? NEITHER is better. The only answer to this question is to bring your own reusable bag to every shopping trip!

14 million trees were cut down to produce paper shopping bags in 1999.

Recycling requires additional energy for collection and processing. Only 1% of plastic bags are recycled. It is better to avoid non-reusable bags in the first place.

Thus far, cloth reusable bags are by far the best eco option when it comes to choice of bags. You can use them again and again, cutting them into cleaning rags, when they finally die, and then they will biodegrade.

Hundreds of thousands of sea turtles, whales and other marine mammals die every year from eating discarded plastic bags mistaken for food.

According to The Wall Street Journal, the U.S. goes through 100 billion plastic shopping bags annually. (Estimated cost to retailers is $4 billion, which is paid for by the consumer... YOU!!)

That is roughly 1 million plastic bags a minute being consumed and less than 1% is recycled. The oil cost? With the 100 billion bags consumed in America it takes 12 million barrels of oil a year.

Angry about high gas prices?? Every ton of plastic bottles recycled saves about 3.8 barrels of oil.

The most reliable statistics from the Pacific Institute put America's love affair with water bottles at 31.2 billion liters of water in 2006. the production of 31.2 billion liters of water for the U.S. bottled water market took roughly 17.6 million barrels of oil, enough oil to run 1.5 million cars on U.S. roadways for an entire year.

In just America alone, we are using 29.6 million barrels of oil a year to have the convenience of plastic bags and plastic water bottles.

By seeing these numbers hopefully you will realize that you can make a difference in our oil costs, the environment and live a greener life all around.