(1) the consumer market needs to be ‘educated’ about this new form of shopping and why it is good for the environment.
(2) This ‘education’ carries a very high price in the form of advertising.
(3) Consumers are those that have to pay the high price of “being green”, while businesses claim that they are actually the ones “going green”. This carries resent from the consumer-side, as well.
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These facts are not eccentric and even fill the virtual world with multitudes of blogs resenting the use of these reusable bags. Moreover, this approach of forcing the consumers to pay for their bags has actually been tried in the 1980’s in the US and in Europe, and has failed miserably, as consumers were not willing to pay for their grocery bags.
There is another solution that has been floating around in the last several years but never really caught wind. Biodegradable bags are usually starch-based, obtained from corn or potatoes, which can be converted into lactic acid, which can then be polymerized to the biodegradable plastic known as polylactide. Corn- or potato-starch bags still remain expensive relative to the conventional plastic bags. Recently, however, some bags like those made with the actual plant fibers are able to provide high-quality biodegradable bags within a reasonable price range. These biodegradable bags DO present a more feasible solution to both the environmental problems and the consumer-behavior-alteration problem stated previously.
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The number of bags you need plays a crucial role in what your bag supplier can do for you. This is something your supplier will want to know even before you discuss materials for your bag. Certain custom print bags simply cannot be manufactured cost-effectively in small quantities.
It costs the same for the manufacturer to start up the printing press whether they’re printing one bag or 100,000 bags. The economy of scale comes from the printing machine running for longer periods of time.
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