Yesterday I found myself in desperate need of a new pair of flats. For work of course! I do stand for up to eight hours…but besides my glee from purchasing some stellar black flats, I was stoked to see that Aldo’s was making some green choices. Instead of stuffing my shoe box into an over sized plastic bag, which will only end up in a land fill or strangling some poor seagull(!), they added handles to their boxes. Brilliant! I walked the five blocks home swinging my shoe box with a smile on my face.
Small changes like a simple rope handle can have huge impact. It’s estimated that the U.S alone goes through 100 billion plastic bags a year. And between 500 billion and a trillion plastic bags worldwide. Imagine if everything had a handle?! Haha…can’t picture the couch.
Even The Tiniest Green Innovation Can Make A Huge Impact
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not to scare you, but look up “trash island”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxNqzAHGXvs&feature=related
So sad…I know…the situation is truly horrible. I just want to give away free canvas bags.
Amber … fantastic post. There is nothing better than to see someone think “outside the box” (pun completely intended) to do a small thing with a big impact. Pure genius.
Now if we could just get rid of all of those plastic water bottles.