Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Events / Retail Blue Avocado Brings Boon to Bag Ladies and a Brush With Schlumpy
Posted by Carrington Fox on Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 6:26 AM
The most fashionable carry-along in the Green Hills Hill Center--since YN departed with its eco-chic cardboard wine 6-packs--just might be the Blue Avocado shopping bag, now available at Whole Foods. Founded by "two mompreneurs and a hip little green maven" in Austin, Texas, Blue Avocado aims to reduce the waste associated with disposable grocery bags.
The $29.99 Blue Avocado gro-pak starter kit comes with three bags (made of post-consumer material), including one insulated bag for refrigerated goods. (This good-looking tote also make a great picnic cooler.)
Blue Avocado projects that the starter kit can save three disposable bags per shopping trip. That's more than 200 bags a year, which equates to a lot of landfill.
Just how much landfill, specifically? Well, that's a hard amount to visualize, which is why Schlumpy, the silently sinister 8-foot ball of wadded-up grocery bags in the above video, will be coming to Whole Foods in Green Hills 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. June 25. The founders of Blue Avocado will also be on hand demonstrating their gro-pak system
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I promise I'm not trying to be a contrarian today, but nothing is better than the Baggu.
www.baggubag.com
Folds up into a flat square so it takes up very little space in your purse or car so you always have them with you. They're very easy to fold and they hold a lot of stuff. I bought mine online but I've seen them for sale at The Cosmetics Market in Hill Center.
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Or you could get a FREE fabric bag from our own local Green Bag Lady. I keep a sack of them in the car and use them for groceries, mall shopping, the farmers market, all of it. You can't really beat the price, and they're made from donated fabric: the ultimate freecycling.
http://greenbaglady.blogspot.com/
$30 for three bags? You can get cloth or post-consumer bags (and insulated bags) lots of places -- including Whole Foods -- for a lot, lot less. I can't imagine the kind of money I'd I've to have to think that spending $10 on a grocery bag was worthwhile.
Green Bag Lady rocks! But, you are getting ONE bag. How many does it usually take? Several - to cart home your groceries.
How long do these bags usually last? I love mine, but they've already ripped.
What Blue Avocado is doing is a commitment to never using plastic bags again. These bags are much sturdier and stronger than your normal reusable bags. They go the distance and are appropriate for frozen goods and produce. They're a great way to introduce reusable bags to those "non-believers."
I'm going to check out this event and see what these women are about (I saw them on Oprah and in InStyle magazine, too). The event is free, after all.
Just Sayin' has a good point about the number of bags. I always have three. That's why I think Baggus are superior--because I always have three of them in my purse and they never get in the way. I use them in Target and other stores as well. The biggest problem with most re-usable bags is that you have to remember to haul them with you. And they're kind of a pain in the ass. The Baggus are super lightweight and fold down really small, so that's just never an issue.
