Now come on, you're not still using plastic shopping bags are you?   Leave these re-useable bags in the boot of the car or by the back door for when you go do the shopping.

The bag is made by The Jute Works in Bangladesh, a fair trade, not for profit marketing trust that supports more than 5000 rural women.

Then 1 kiwi woman, Jennifer, added her own NZ touch by screen printing beautiful images of our native birds on them.   They're easy to post and make beautiful gifts as well as being very durable.  Choose from a range of birds shown below.

Did you know NZ uses approx. 1.2 billion plastic shopping bags every year and each one takes an estimated 500 years to break down in the earth!