Norquest Bags are great alternatives to plastic waste

Plastic bags are ugly and cause litter and kill animals and marine life.

But they’re preferred because they’re so cheap.

This isn’t as true as it used to be as oil prices test new highs every few weeks.

Norquest’s range of reusable bags, made from natural cotton, rip-resistant polyester, and spun bonded nonwoven polypropylene, includes a large variety of totes, shopping bags, boat bags.

Particularly interesting is their range of polyester bags that zip into a small pouch you can slip into your pocket or purse. These open up into a large shopping bag that hold more than 20 lbs of shopping.

Polyester and polypropylene also is made from crude oil, but it is the ruggedness of the material and its lightness that make it reuseable hundreds of times, and therefore superior to plastic bags.

Norquest are based in India but their website http://www.badlani.com makes it very easy for customers all over the world, even customers for small quantities directly. They often Fedex customized bags to reach customers within a week of ordering.

It’s a whole new world. A small company half-way across the world helping solve a huge problem for America. The average American throws away between 700 and 1000 shopping bags a year, and this is totaling up to staggering amounts.

Norquest’s weblog at http://www.badlani.com/blog offers fascinating facts about this phenomenon and also stories of how entire communities have rid themselves of plastic bags. In the context of the proposed 17 cents tax in California, it is interesting to read how many communities have done this without taxation.

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Norquest Brands is a small organisation based in Ahmedabad, India, that seeks to offer viable and attractive alternatives to plastic bags, which they consider a serious threat to our planet’s continued good health.