The COVID-19 outbreak is giving new meaning to those “sustainable” shopping bags that politicians and environmentalists have been so eager to impose on the public. These reusable tote bags can ...

But tote bags have a high carbon footprint, too. In fact, reusing a single plastic bag three times has the same environmental impact as using a cotton tote bag 393 times.

Bag materials also make a difference: A 2018 Danish study found an organic cotton tote bag needs to be used 20,000 times to offset the environmental impact of its production cost, compared to 84 ...

Her 2007 "I'm Not a Plastic Bag" tote, created with the environmental agency Swift, sold for around $10 (€8.50) in supermarkets. It encouraged shoppers to stop buying single-use bags and went ...

According to a 2018 study by the Ministry of Environment and Food of Denmark, an organic cotton tote needs to be used a staggering 20,000 times to offset its overall impact of production — which ...

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Recently, Venetia Berry, an artist in London, counted up the free cotton tote bags that she had accumulated in her closet. There were at least 25.There were totes from the eco-fashion brand Reforma… ...