For my recent 40th (yipes!!) birthday, a friend gave me some very cool bags. One is a tote bag that is made from recycled juice containers. It is bright, colorful and fun. And the other bags were a set of 3 cosmetics bags made from recycled rice bags. They are great – tons of uses. All the bags are “fair trade” and they are made by women in challenging situations – the tote is made in Indonesia and the cosmetic bags in Cambodia. Why not support something great and have bags that are conversation pieces?

You can check them out at www.reusablebags.com. While your there you can learn some wildly disturbing facts about plastic bag consumption. One of the stats is that there are 1 million plastic bags consumed each minute!!