Review by Michael Smith (Veshengro)
Great product that takes a number of juice pouches out of the waste stream.
The sample of the messenger bag that I was sent, which uses Kool-Aid Jammers juice pouches in the flap and the back, though it was an “Oreo Messenger Bag” I had in fact wanted to use for review. Not that that matters, though, I am sure.
It must be said, however, that I do like the green color – it goes with the magazine and what we are trying to convey– and therefore this bag is most welcome.
The strap could be a little longer – in my opinion – for the people who are a little on the bigger side, such as myself, and I am here not just speaking of being rotund. But, then again, the bag may be more intended for children and young people rather than of my age and stature.
The quality of the bag appears to be rather good, as in the seams and such, though I wonder why juice pouches are used ONLY in the flap and the back and for the cell phone pouch attached to the side. The rest of the bag appear to be made from virgin fabric, a nylon kind of material, as far as I can tell.
The construction, as said, is very sturdy, and the only concern that I have is that the flap does not totally cover the interior of the bag with a little overlap either side. But that is also a problem that I have found with many other a messenger bag.
This, however, then makes for a bag where the contents could get wet during rain. However, this is not something that could be easily overcome and rectified unless one would redesign the design of such a bag itself, and because of where the shoulder strap has to be attached the flap is in the way that it is.
My star rating for the TerraCycle Juice Pouch Messenger Bag would be a 4 out of 5 and the one star lost is due to the fact that the product is not made in the USA but in Mexico.
I can but assume that the pouches collected by the brigades are shipped to Mexico where the bags then are sewn and the finished bags then, obviously, get shipped back to the USA.
This increase of the environmental footprint (I do not use carbon footprint as environmental footprint conveys much more, such as use of water, etc.) to some degree negates the good impact by removing the juice pouches from the waste stream.
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TerraCycle Juice Pouch Messenger Bag – Product Review
