fair trade shopper bag - ants
This jute shopper bag is one of the more sustainable bags you can use to help our planet. It is only a small choice but as we constantly say, small choices eventually make the biggest differences. Replacing our plastic shopping bags with these colourful, fun and fair trade bags makes it one of the easiest, yet important choices you can make towards caring for the environment and fellow mankind.
This bag is reusable, biodegradable and made under fair trade principles.
You only need to see the UTube video on “Plastic Trash Island Disaster” to re enforce the thought how using plastic causes so much damage.
If you are not already in the habit, why not get into to habit having these bags in your car. Not in the boot, but where you can see them. Maybe hang them on your door, so you see them as you walk out — psychologists estimate it takes 28 days in a row of doing something to create a new habit.
It might be our habit of the month!
Measurement – 40 cm x 40 cm.
This jute shopper bag is one of the more sustainable bags you can use to help our planet. It is only a small choice but as we constantly say, small choices eventually make the biggest differences. Replacing our plastic shopping bags with these colourful, fun and fair trade bags makes it one of the easiest, yet important choices you can make towards caring for the environment and fellow mankind.
This bag is reusable, biodegradable and made under fair trade principles.
You only need to see the UTube video on “Plastic Trash Island Disaster” to re-enforce the thought how using plastic causes so much damage.
If you are not already in the habit, why not get into to habit having these bags in your car. Not in the boot, but where you can see them. Maybe hang them on your door, so you see them as you walk out — psychologists estimate it takes 28 days in a row of doing something to create a new habit.
It might be our habit of the month!
Measurement – 40 cm x 40 cm.
Group : Fair Trade Handicrafts, Bangladesh (FTHB)
FTHB specialises in capacity building. Since their inception they have trained over 11,000 artisans in skills such as marketing, production, price placement, style and quality control. By bringing many groups together like this FTHB bring the markets of the world to the door of the producers. While marketing these producer group’s products FTHB also manufacture their own fair trade items in jute, cotton, recycled materials and clay.
For more on the vision and practices of FTHB click here
Impact on poverty
By being a conduit for these producers FTHB takes the technical and marketing work out of the hands of the producer. This enables them to concentrate on what they do best but more importantly to employ more people as FTHB brings more work to their door. In the context of Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world, every labourer employed in fair trade conditions is a poverty impacting bonus.
..and for you..
In buying this product you have supported a group that has fair trade at it’s heart. You have made a meaningful shopping choice that has gone way beyond the ‘average buy’ whilst sending a clear message of love to our ‘neighbours’ far away. The small card that comes with this tells you a little about FTHB, fair trade and even has a picture of one of the workers from the group who made this.