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  • Healthy garden, healthy you.
    March 31, 2020

    Healthy garden, healthy you.

    While this national lockdown which we’ve found ourselves in may be inconvenient, it’s not all bad. There have been a few surprising side effects. We’ve slowed down and avoided the frenetic pace of our usual busy lives. We found new...

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  • Break down of corn-starch bags
    December 13, 2019

    Break down of corn-starch bags

    Compost watch: do corn-starch bags really break down in your backyard compost? For many of us the concept of using compostable bags, made with corn-starch, is fairly new. But most of us are all for making the transition from traditional...

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  • Green Christmas Gifts
    November 28, 2019

    Green Christmas Gifts

    12 simple hacks to make your Christmas gift giving a little greener Us kiwis generate about 30% more rubbish over the Christmas season. So we thought it would be useful to suggest a few easy ways to reduce your waste...

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  • Is Cotton Sustainable?
    November 26, 2019

    Is Cotton Sustainable?

    The truth about cotton – how sustainable is it really? It’s high time we all cottoned on (pun intended!) to where our products come from, how they’re manufactured, and what the product’s end-of-life looks like. So, let’s look at one...

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  • No to greenwashing
    September 24, 2019

    No to greenwashing

    Don’t fall victim to greenwashing Your quick guide to the eco-friendly spectrum. In the wake of the single-use plastic bag ban, which hit stores in July this year, New Zealanders are on a hunt for more sustainable packaging options. We’re...

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  • Cotton on to Fairtrade
    August 20, 2019

    Cotton on to Fairtrade

    While we definitely care for the environment, here at Ecobags, people are really important to us too. We try to help the planet out in more ways than one, which is why Ecobags has a range of 100% Organic and...

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  • Return of The Paper Bag!
    July 9, 2019

    Return of The Paper Bag!

    Let’s take a minute to appreciate the iconic yet humble, the one, the only, paper bag. While plastic bags have widely been recognised as the go-to ‘shopping bag’ for years, the ban of single use plastic bags in many countries...

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  • What to do with the doo
    May 3, 2019

    What to do with the doo

    If you have a dog, you’ll be familiar with picking up dog poop (hopefully!). While local supermarkets have already said goodbye to the common soft plastic bag, the blanket ban of plastic bags comes in on the 1st of July...

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