ChicoBag Product Review & Contest

About ChicoBag™

In early 2004, Andy Keller, now ChicoBag™ president, took a trip to his local landfill after spending the day landscaping his backyard. He was horrified by what he saw. Single-use bags were the dominant article at the landfill that day, blanketing the landscape in a thin mix of white and beige plastic. On his way home he began to notice plastic bags everywhere, caught in trees and on fence posts, half drowned in gutter puddles and blowing in the streets like urban tumbleweeds. That day Andy vowed to stop using single-use bags. Inspired, Andy dropped a few bucks on a second hand sewing machine and began sewing what would ultimately become the first ChicoBag™ brand reusable bag.

Andy understood that a reusable bag was only valuable if it was reused.  He knew his challenge was larger than designing any ordinary reusable bag – this reusable bag needed to be designed to be unforgettable. It needed to be small enough to tote in a pocket and have features that allowed it to clip anywhere.

After countless hours, fabrics and prototypes the Original ChicoBag™ brand reusable bag, complete with an integrated stuff pouch and attached carabiner, was born.  Andy’s ChicoBag™ brand reusable bags were first sold in 2005 on Earth Day at the Farmers Market in Chico, CA.  Initially only available in white, the Original has evolved to include eleven color choices.

In 2008, ChicoBag™ introduced trademarked rePETe™ products as part of an evolving effort to reduce our environmental impact. rePETe™ is a term we use to help our customers identify which ChicoBag™ brand products are made using recycled content. Every product with the rePETe™ logo is manufactured using recycled materials. Our rePETe™ products bring us one step closer to providing consumers with a closed loop solution.

ChicoBag™ is now an industry leader in the compact reusable bag movement and a leading innovator of fashionable, lightweight, bags and packs that can be easily stuffed into an integrated pouch. ChicoBag™ delivers a wide array of reusable bags that are meant to deliver solutions to every lifestyle. Our commitment to the environment drives us to provide a trusted brand and a portfolio of quality products aimed at helping humanity solve the environmental challenges ahead.

Contest Details

Win your own Produce Stand Collection by ChicoBag™!  ChicoBag™ is hosting a Produce Stand giveaway and will be selecting 10 winners to receive the new Produce Stand Collection.  Contest ends June 4th 2010. Click here to enter to win!

We received this cute little bag that contains three big ChicoBag™ produce bags within it.  When I say cute little apple bag, I mean cute little bag! This little apple bag (pictured above) is about 3-1/2″ x 2-1/2″!  The bags inside of it are 12-1/2″ x 16″, and yes, there are THREE of them in that little red bag!

One bag is white/off-white Hemp-Cotton blend which is great for leafy greens and green beans. The second bag is green rePETe™, which is great for squash, broccoli, carrots and celery.  The third bag is orange & white Mesh rePETe™, which is great for apples, oranges, potatoes, onions.  They all have drawstrings for closures including the little red carrier bag, which also includes a snap hook so you can attached the bags to your purse to easily carry them to the store.  Gotta love the drawstring closures, great to keep your produce in the bags.

These bags are all reusable and washable, so you will be able to use them as often as you want!  I love this fact, nothing worse than having to use bags that you can’t wash, especially when dealing with produce!  I also love that they come different colors and that each bag is made to hold specific foods and keep them fresh.  Right now we have our sweet potatoes sitting in the bag we used last week so that they stay fresh and keeps everything off of them.

Disclosure: I would like to thank Becca from ChicoBag for providing me with the Produce Stand Starter Kit for the purpose of this review. All opinions are that of my own.