Invention of the shopping bag as we know it was first accredited to a Minnesota grocer named Walter Deubner, who in 1912 patented the paper shopping bag to help customers carry (and therefore purchase) more items. A century later, plastic, paper, non-woven, woven, and canvas bags are as integral to retail as shoppers themselves. In [...]

As consumers (and therefore businesses) become more sentient of the roles we each must play to preserve our ailing environment, demands for sustainable production become more and more the norm.