We rely on meticulous research to qualify environmental facts and engineer our bags. Since 80%+ of all NOAXE bags are recovered in EPA landfills, they have by far the lowest overall environmental impact on our forests, wildlife, communities, planet, and health.

• Made from sanitary polyethylene, the gold standard of sanitation for grocery store foods and hospital products. Feedstock comes from natural gas.
• Engineered to be reused 125 times, use far less energy to manufacture, ship, and recycle.
• Are automatically recovered at EPA LMOP landfills and converted into RNG
• Sorting at EPA landfill MRF (Materials Recovery Facility) is unneccessary
• NOAXE bags contain no toxic substances that contribute to acid rain or water pollution.
• Only NOAXE handles are designed to help prevent entanglement with marine and wildlife. Bags do no harm to forests.
• Recovery of polyethylene back into its original feedstock (natural gas) is sustainable, infinitely renewable.

• Over 14 million trees are cut down each year to make 10 billion paper bags used by shoppers.
• Rarely reused. To recycle and replace 125 paper bags consumes over 100 times the energy, gas, and oil byproducts.
• Rarely recycled, no longer accepted in China or other world markets creating an enormous glut and financial liability for recyclers.
• Over 95% of paper bags are disposed in landfills and release GhG. One paper bag releases 12 times more GhG than one NOAXE Bag.
• U.S. paper mills are the largest consumers of clean water and are notorious water and air polluters.
• Tree farming and forest logging destroys old-growth forests, essential to many endangered wildlife and plant species.
• Tree farming and forest management are not considered sustainable farming practices and damage land, air and water quality.

• Spread disease. Reuse of contaminated bags in stores creates a serious health issue: Spreading disease (such as Coronavirus) on checkout counter surfaces and shopping carts (cross-contamination to other shoppers).
• Not recyclable. Not accepted by recyclers, no re-purposing market. Consume 9 times more landfill space with no degradation for maybe 1000 years.
• Known to harbor E-coli and harmful bacteria. Contamination confirmed by U.S. Universities. As many as 10-15 deaths reported.
• Made from foreign oil. They are a health hazard, bad for the environment and marine and wildlife.
• Toxic levels of lead and cadmium reported by California State University, Chico on 70% of imported bags. No third-party certification standards cause a liability risk.
• Enormous energy guzzlers. Environmental Agency of Great Britain reports bags must be reused 171 times to offset its high carbon footprint!
• Entanglement hazard to marine and wildlife. Long loop handles can permanently wrap around the necks of marine and forest animals.
• Difficult to reuse. Storing and toting 6-8 bulky bags into a store is awkward; washing tends to destroy bag handle integrity and a bag’s ability to stand up and load.

One truckload of NOAXE bags reused ten times is equal to eighty truckloads of paper bags recycled ten times!