Get Hip Get Green brings reusable shopping bags to a forefront of both "E"s: environmentalism and education. By buying this bag you help alleviate the amount of other bags--plastic and paper--that are routinely discarded and not recycled.
Every bag Olive sells also means a donation to the children's environmental group, The Green Ambassadors. The Green Ambassadors provide high school students with experiences that foster personal growth, commmunity service, cross-culture and global exchange and leadership skills to tackle the most critical environmental issues facing our planet.
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Every year over 1 million birds and sea mammals die from plastic ingestion or entanglement.
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15 million trees are cut down every year to make paper bags in this country.
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Less than 1% of plastic shopping bags get recycled.
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12 million barrels of oil are used annually to produce plastic bags in the US.
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The most important thing is to educate others.
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Every sale means a donation to the The Green Ambassadors. Youth empowering youth!
