Safe Lunch Bags for you and your children
Our wide range of fun kids bags are 100% lead-free & a smart alternative to throwaway paper and plastic bags. From simple recycled cotton lunch bags to creative Laptop Lunch Kits, we have an excellent selection of handpicked products that are durable and a great value. Read more about findings of high levels of lead in some children’s lunch boxes & our endorsement as a source for vinyl/PVC-free lunch boxes by the Center for
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Environmental Health (CEH)
Create a safe, eco-friendly lunch kit with our wide range of smart reusable lunch bags, bottles, food containers, sandwich / snack bags, & utensils.
# Plastic bags consume scarce resources and create pollution littering streets, beaches, trees and waterways.
# Plastic bags are perceived as disposable and are an impediment to San Francisco’s 75% landfill diversion by 2010 and zero waste by 2020.
# Plastic bags are difficult & costly to recycle – it costs more to process and recycle plastic bags than other items like aluminum. More on why recycling doesn’t work here.
# San Francisco uses an estimated 180 million plastic grocery bags a year with less than 1% being recycled.
# Previous measures taken by the city to curb plastic bag consumption (e.g. retailers managed their own recycling efforts) have largely failed.
# San Francisco spends millions each year for plastic bag cleanup and related costs .
# By switching to the compostable bags the city will be conserving 430,000 gallons of oil used to make traditional bags – the equivalent of keeping 140,000 cars off the street for a day. (Jared Blumenfeld, director of San Francisco’s Department of the Environment as reported by Christian Science Monitor)
# According to the Ordinance, plastic shopping bags in the U.S. account for the felling of over 14 million trees, the use of over 12 million barrels of oil, as well as the death of over 100,000 marine animals from plastic entanglement.
WHAT / HOW?
# Ordinance is designed to reduce the detrimental environmental impact of non-compostable plastic bags and non-recyclable paper bags by (1) prohibiting the distribution of such bags as checkout bags, and (2) imposing a range of graduated penalties for stores that violate the Ordinance.
# Ordinance requires compostable plastic, recyclable paper and/or reusable bags be offered at point of sale in San Francisco stores.# Retailers responsible are grocery stores (gross sales of $2 million or more) and pharmacies with 5 or more city locations (but excluding those within hospitals).
# Violators are fined $100-$500 for infractions.
# Ordinance goes into effect in 6 months for grocery stores and 1 year for pharmacies.
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