According to one eye-popping estimate, a cotton bag should be used at least 7,100 times to make it a truly environmentally friendly alternative to a conventional plastic bag. The answer to what ...

Recently, Venetia Berry, an artist in London, counted up the free cotton tote bags that she had accumulated in her closet. There were at least 25. There were totes from the eco-fashion brand ...

You can get cotton bags pretty much everywhere. How did an environmental solution become part of the problem? A laundry line of cotton totes accumulated by a single person since the race to ...

It means that one organic cotton tote has the same environmental impact as 20,000 plastic bags. This also implies that it “saves” 20,000 bags, which the authors state outright in the executive ...

Cotton tote bags, once hailed as the solution to reduce pollution from single-use plastic bags, are not as environmentally-friendly as brands claim due to overproduction, according to a report.

We all know to avoid single-use plastic carrier bags, but what about our cotton tote bags? Well, a recent piece by the New York Times has highlighted that they might not be as eco-friendly as you ...

Cotton bags offered by many supermarkets may be less 'green' than plastic carriers - and may cause more global warming, according to scientists. As a greater amount of energy goes into making a ...

In fact, reusing a single plastic bag three times has the same environmental impact as using a cotton tote bag 393 times. A study on grocery carrier bags conducted by the UK's Environment Agency ...