Most of us are aware of the wasteful nature of plastic bags and the damage they can do to the environment and especially to marine wildlife. Taking your own reusable bag to the supermarket is fairly common place and sometimes essential with certain supermarkets banning plastic bags.

I live fairly close to the supermarket so I walk there with one of those trolleys which you see old ladies pulling around (apologies to any old ladies reading this) which I can’t remember what they’re called. Yeah, it’s a bit embarrassing but when you’ve got a lot of stuff to carry it’s indispensable.

Of course, sometimes I just buy a few items on my way home and so use a little fold up bag which I carry in my handbag. It folds up to around 10cm by 5cm making it ideal for carrying with me at all times. It can take a fair amount of stuff and these days, I couldn’t live without it. It is getting a bit scruffy though so I’m thinking to replace it with an organic cotton tote bag. One that would fold up to fit in my pocket would be perfect but I am yet to find one like that.

Organic Cotton Tote Bags

If you are looking for an organic cotton tote bag you can try these two sites.

• Earth Tote Bags have a handful of different tote bags which would carry an awful lot (they look huge) but are not exactly what I’m looking for. A bag like that is just too big and not suitable for doing the shopping. On the other hand it would be great for taking to the beach so if that’s what you are looking for then these bags would be ideal. They also sell hemp bags and organic cotton string bags which look a bit more versatile.
• Justsite has a 100% organic cotton canvas tote bag which I really like although it only comes in khaki and I would much rather have one in black.

I might have to keep looking until I find exactly what I want. What kind of reusable bag do you use?

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