I heard about Credo bags about six months ago, just when I had finished all of my Christmas shopping early. I remember the timing because I had already bought my parent’s Christmas gifts by this point – a couple of little treats and two tickets to see the orchestra perform with a Beatles tribute group.
My parents are somewhat at a stage in their life when they’re kind of over collecting ‘stuff’ for the sake of stuff. Thus, many of the gifts I purchase for them in particular must have a strong functional element to them.
My mom is a bit of an eco freak (and I mean that in a nice way) – she was hauling sturdy canvas reusable shopping bags to the grocery mart when I was a wee tot in our Volvo wagon station in the 90s, well before the 21st century anti-Christ (the plastic shopping bag) was publicly masticated. Since then we’ve seen a huge boom in promotional reusable shopping bags. My personal collection includes some from Telus, Yellow Pages, IKEA, a college, a paper company, a hockey team, and a couple I actually purchased from President’s Choice before the whole thing exploded.
Reusuable shopping bags are half the battle though – consider how many of the products you’re loading up in your cart (and eco-friendly bags) are wrapped in plastic? While this is somewhat unavoidable on the manufacturing side until food processors relook at their policies, you can do something about the fresh produce you buy