SlingSax from Envirosax – Product Review

Review by Michael Smith (Veshengro)

SlingSax are a handy, hands-free accessory for busy people on the go. Easy tie-together handles allow SlingSax to be worn long and diagonally to rest on the hip, and the handles can be adjusted to suit different body shapes.

The SlingSax is a very stylish messenger-style bag which is equally suited for men and women. The bag is easy to deploy and easy to roll up again as well.

The SlingSax can be worn in a variety of ways and the only difference between a messenger bag per se and the SlingSax is that the latter does not have a flap.

The sleek design, however, suits busy urban dwellers who need their hands free while negotiating buses, trains and the daily grind. Convenient, stylish and featuring recycled content, SlingSax are the epitome of contemporary eco conscious living.

The SlingSax is made from RPET, that is to say that it has a 45% recyclced PET contents.

Envirosax Pty Ltd has gone into partnership with Unifi Inc of the USA to make its own Envirosax RPET. The Envirosax RPET is a mix of 55% flat filament polyester and 45% Repreve® polyester.

The 45% Repreve® in the ENVIROSAX RPET is made up of 100% recycled product, with 80% pre-consumer and 20% post-consumer recycled polyester content (mainly plastic bottles).

The key point however, is that Envirosax Pty Ltd can verify and prove that the 45% Repreve® is in fact 100% recycled content, as it has been tested and certified by the only company in the world able to accurately do this - Scientific Certification Systems (SCS).

Another nice product from Envirosax and I, for one, love it.

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Envirosax – Product Review

Review by Michael Smith

Envirosax, the original designer reusable bag – since 2004

Envirosax were the first modern day reusable shopping bags available that could be packed small enough to be carried for he “just in case” shopping spree, while still being large enough and strong enough to carry a considerable amount of stuff.

They have been the first designer reusable bags available to buy in stores, and Envirosax have been around since 2004 and that would mean well before anyone else was even thinking of using reusable shoppers, especially as regards to protecting the environment.

Envirosax reusable bags are indeed very nice and useful shoppers and those that are made from polyester come in a variety of colors, including camouflage. The latter, I guess, for those that want to hide their groceries in the woods. Just joking.

Envirosax bags are made through a company-owned manufacturer. Fair trade and fair wages is an issue in Third World countries, but the manufacturer for Envirosax has met all fair trade guidelines. At Envirosax they deal directly with the manufacturer and therefore there are no middlemen and there are no children, for instance, employed in the factories in China.

Aside from the lighter and cheaper polyester bags there are also 100% cotton ones in the range of Envirosax. Those, however, do not pack as small as do the polyester ones, nor do they come in as many colors.

Envirosax reusable bags are totally safe to carry food. Before using a reusable bag to carry your shopping, especially your groceries, you should ensure that it has been tested to show that it is safe to do so.

The original home of the Envirosax bags is on the Australian Gold Cost and the bags have all undergone food migration safety tests conducted by the Australian Government National Measurement Institute. The samples from the bags were extracted in accordance with AS2070-1999 “Plastics materials for food contact use”. The test results indicated full compliance with the AS2070-1999.

Envirosax reusable shopping bags (and they can be used for other things aside from shopping) come in many colors and many types, to list them all would be a bit too much.

The polyester bags are able to carry at least 20kg (which equals a little over 40lbs – for our non-metric cousins) and I personally would not ever wish to carry that kind of load in my hands or on the shoulder;; the handles are large enough to be looped over one shoulder.

The retail for the polyester version of the Envirosax bags was given as Euro 7.50 for a single bag or the Graphic, Greengrocer or Kids series. The organic series are somewhat more expensive.

Viewed from all angles those Envirosax bags are great and a good investment in the future of our Planet. So, don't delay, get your Envirosax bag today!

© M Smith (Veshengro), February 2009
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Ethical at Pure London

by Michael Smith

Ethical women's (and it was not just women's) clothing and fashion accessories at Pure London Show have been seen here for the first time this year in early February.

Though not as yet a large collection of ethical clothing and fashion accessories, what was on show was a great quality and some of it extremely interesting. Kashmere and other wools were in evidence, as well as organic and ethically produced cotton clothes.

In the accessories range a number of the shoe companies stood out in my view and also the company that makes curtains, handbags, wallets and even baseball caps from cork. In fact a lot, lot more that what I have just listed.

The question, obviously, is as to whether the buyers of the hight street stores, boutiques, and others are ready to buy into the ethical bit. We can but hope that they will for there is lots of nice stuff there, and, obviously, there is much more than what was showing at Pure London.

Some part of me believes that it may still be some time before the High Street will completely by into the ethical and green issue and especially brands. However, if it is what the consumer demands then, I am sure that they will. They just have to.

But, if the seminars by the Ethical Fashion Forum were anything to go by then the message may already be getting across for they were extremely busy and packed out to some extent. A good thins that, methinks, and it would point to a definite hunger out there amongst buyers and traders to learn more about ethical, as that is, it would appear, what the consumer demands.

A good range of ethically produced and sourced products were to be seen at especially the Ethical Pure accessories and also some interesting ranges at the Ethical Pure clothing section.

I would hope though that that soon more ethical and green designers, labels and brands will be represented at Pure London in the future, and not so so distant one either.

Some of the prices also – especially of some of the items I saw – were also not exorbitant; far from it in fact. This is very good to see as regards to ethical fashion, etc. Normally we find, do we not, that as soon as the label “ethical” or “eco” or “green” is attached the price rises about fourfold.

I am going to stick my neck out here with a sort of prediction and that is that I believe that people will, despite the recession and depression, for I firmly believe we are headed for the latter if we have not already arrived there, instead of taking holidays abroad and easting out that much, buy nice ethical clothes in the same way as I believe that people will make use of the their gardens more instead of holidaying abroad.

I shall try to obtain some samples from some of the companies that I saw and I shall bring the reviews in this here journal as and when.

Hopefully one should be forthcoming for sure and that is some great and green shoes that were shown, which are made of mostly recycled materials.

One sample came our way directly and that is an Envirosax and I shall be reviewing this here in due course.

I would like to use this opportunity to thank all the staff in the press office for their help and attention given freely and generously.

© M Smith (Veshengro), February 2009
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