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WoW! This generous RPET shopper bag is made from 7 old, recycled PET bottles.Why is choosing RPET sustainable?• Saving 75% of fossil energy in production and another 5% in combustion.• Plastic, so polyester is also made from petroleum. RPET products ...provide 70% lower CO2 emissions.• Recycled polyester uses 90% less drinking water than polyester and recycled bottles don’t end up in the ocean.• Recycling provides many jobs worldwide.• RPET material is of a high quality.With the purchase of this product you support Plastic Bank® – an international organization with two main goals that concern us all: reducing poverty and reducing the plastic soup in the oceans that is an environmental catastrophe. Plastic Bank® pays people in developing countries to collect the plastic from the 5 most polluting rivers in the world. From this plastic waste, which therefore no longer ends up in the oceans, the so-called RPET material is made, which may bear the Social Plastic® label.