Why did ECO1NEST develop a bag dryer?
Although plastic bags in general are not sustainable, at the least, for starters, we wanted to give people a way of minimizing their use of plastic produce bags. The BED-A-BAG handy bag dryers make it easy to wash and re-use plastic produce bags. It’s much easier than draping them over the dishes in the dish rack! Also, you can use the BED-A-BAG to dry compostable (biodegradable) produce bags or cotton produce bags which can be used again and again for years. Look on our links page and there are several links for cotton produce bags (reusablebags.com; organicbaglady.com are two of them.) We developed the BED-A-BAG because it is useful and also because we want to raise awareness of the problems with plastic bags. The main problems are: …plastic is made from nonrenewable resource (petroleum) …plastic is non-biodegradable …plastic bags create litter which blows around, fills land fills, creates huge clean-up costs …plastic is mistaken for food by land and sea animals (many animals
