Bag Monster® Week in Review and Experiences at Green Festival
on Nov 20, 2009 in plastic bag ban san francisco green festival plastic bag fee "bag monster" green festival News on the reusable bag movement has been coming in all week. Here's the latest: San Francisco, CA: Bag Monster made an appearance at Green Festival. Check out the pictures below! The Watsonville City Council has formed a subcommittee to evaluate a...

Facts About Single-Use Plastic and Paper Bags
on Nov 19, 2009 in ChicoBag single use bags "reusable bags" bag facts plastic bag facts paper bag facts single use plastic bag facts In case you need a reminder about why using reusable bags is so important, here are some startling facts about single-use plastic and paper bags. Single-Use Plastic Bags: First introduced in 1977 as an alternative to paper bags, plastic bags now acc...

Take Action and Win Green Prizes in the World's Biggest Green Sweepstakes
on Nov 16, 2009 in ChicoBag win green prizes 350.org We add up climate action giveaway 1Sky 350.org climate action green sweepstakes On December 7th, over 230 people will win great green prizes, take action and enter to win today! Make history with us and be entered to win in the World's Biggest Green Sweepstakes! Once you sign up to win from hundreds of green prizes from your...

Bag Monster® Week in Review
on Nov 13, 2009 in ChicoBag bag monster "reusable bag" plastic bag ban paper bag fee plastic bag fee plastic bag reduction paper bag ban A few updates on the reusable bag movement this week: Palo Alto may begin to charge for single-use paper bags by next year. Palo Alto recently banned single-use plastic bags from the city's seven grocers. Read More Holland & Barrett, a health an...

Tips, Tricks & Incentives to Remember Your Reusable Bags
on Nov 11, 2009 in andy keller single use paper bags ChicoBag single use bags reusable bag tips "reusable bags" "plastic bag education remember your bags Bag Monster® collections are often a result of the common excuse that people can't seem to remember their reusable bags when they go to the store. For some, reusable bags make it to the car, but are nowhere to be found when arriving at the checkout...

Bag Monster® Week in Review
on Nov 6, 2009 in Abu Dhabi ChicoBag "reusable bag" single use bags taiwan plastic bag tax plastic bag ban bag monster events plsatic bag fee Wales "bag monster" Lots of great news on the reusable bag movement this week. Here are the updates: By May 2011 at the latest, shoppers in Wales will be charged up to 15-pence each for single-use plastic bags. Read More South Australia's plastic bag ban has been extrem...

Wales to be first in UK to charge shoppers for plastic bags
on Nov 4, 2009 in wales bag fee ChicoBag "reusable bag" uk bag fee single use bag fee single use bag ban plastic bag fee plastic bag reduction wales plastic bag fee In June, the Welsh Assembly asked for public opinion on instating a 15-pence bag fee in Wales. Yesterday, Environment Minister Jane Davidson confirmed that by May 2011 shoppers will be charged up to 15-pence each for single-use plastic bags. More de...

Happy Halloween!
on Oct 30, 2009Happy Halloween from Everyone at ChicoBag™! function fbs_click() {u=location.href;t=document.title;window.open('http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(u)+'&t='+encodeURIComponent(t),'sharer','toolbar=0,status=0,width=...

Bag Monster® Week in Review
on Oct 30, 2009 in santa cruz bag ban "reusable bag" plastic bag ban "plastic bag education milpitas bag ban plastic bag fee Northern Ireland calabasas bag ban "bag monster" There has been a lot of news on the reusable bag movement this week. Here's the latest: Santa Cruz County Supervisor, Mike Stone, has plans to make Santa Cruz County, CA paper and plastic bag free by Earth Day 2010. Read More Los Angeles county kic...

Bag Monster® Events - Bioneers and Greenschools
on Oct 26, 2009 in ChicoBag single use bags GreenSchools™ "reusable bags" "plastic bag education single use plastic bag bioneers "plastic bag" "bag monster" Bag Monster® at Bioneers! Bag Monster® made an appearance at the Bioneers Conference in San Rafael this year, but found that he didn't have much in common with the people there. He was astonished to see that there was not a single plastic bag in s...