Puma's Biodegradable Shopping Bag

Puma has made a big effort to be a more eco-friendly, sustainable company. One of their projects was to reduce the environmental impact of their packaging. They introduced a packaging system they call the Clever Little Bag.

Puma Clever Little Bag

Puma’s Clever Little Bag replaced their previous Red Shoebox. The new design is easier to manufacture, convenient for consumers to carry, reduces cardboard use by 65% and doesn’t use any tissue.

From Puma’s website:

The Clever Little Bag uses less packaging, fewer raw materials and less water and energy in production than traditional shoeboxes.  Thanks to a reduction in weight, energy use is also decreased during shipping. Annually, this translates into a reduction of 8,500 tons of paper used, 20 million megajoules of electricity saved, a reduction of 1 million litres of fuel and a savings of 1 million litres of water.

Now Puma has a shopping bag made from cornstarch and eco-safe ink. The Clever Little Shopper is completely biodegradable in 3 months in a home composter. If you can’t wait three months you can actually dissolve the bags in hot water. Here’s a video that shows how quickly the bag dissolves.

And don’t worry about the bag dissolving in the rain. The water has to be about 140° F to dissolve. If the rain is that hot we have more to worry about than a melting shoe bag.

It would be even better if Puma shoes were biodegradable too They are pvc free but you can’t just throw them in the compost or woods like you can with OAT shoes. Hopefully that’s Puma’s next project.

Via Care2.com

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