Finders Keepers' Annual Bag Sale Benefits Refugee Resettlement and Immigration Services of Atlanta

Annual bag auction to be captivated on Saturday, March 21 at Fashions

Atlanta, GA (Vocus/PRWEB ) March 18, 2009 -- Spring is about actuality and that agency it is time for Finders Keepers' anniversary bag sale. Those that participate in the bag auction pay $10 and accept a ample bag which they can ample with commodity from Fashions and Boutique. This year's bag auction allowances Refugee Resettlement and Immigration Services of Atlanta (RRISA) and will be captivated on Saturday, March 21 at Fashions.

A Finders Keepers chump holds up her accoutrements abounding with commodity at endure year's anniversary alms bag sale.

The bag auction is a abundant way for our barter to acquirement items for their closet at an affordable amount while acknowledging a abundant non-profit We accept accurate RRISA for abounding years now and we are captivated to abide that abutment through this year's bag sale. Many of these refugees appear to Atlanta from war-torn and bankrupt countries, so they appear with actual little if annihilation at all Helping these refugees costs money and it is because of bounded supporters such as Finders Keepers that we can abide to advice those who accept had little ascendancy over the situations that they accept faced. "The bag auction is a abundant way for our barter to acquirement items for their closet at an affordable amount while acknowledging a abundant non-profit," said Bonnie Kallenberg, Owner of Finders Keepers. "We accept accurate RRISA for abounding years now and we are captivated to abide that abutment through this year's bag sale."

RRISA works on account of refugees from all over the apple who accept able war, ache and blackmail to their way of life. RRISA helps hundreds of refugees anniversary year alpha a new activity in the Atlanta association by accouterment a acceptable at the airport, basal needs items, affecting and job support, and cultural orientation. For added advice on RRISA, appointment www.rrisa.org.

"Many of these refugees appear to Atlanta from war-torn and bankrupt countries, so they appear with actual little if annihilation at all," said Leanne Rubenstein, Development Director at RRISA. "Helping these refugees costs money and it is because of bounded supporters such as Finders Keepers that we can abide to advice those who accept had little ascendancy over the situations that they accept faced."

To appear the bag auction crop I-285 East to Exit #41 (Memorial Drive/GA-10 West/Cynthia McKinney Parkway) and about-face appropriate at the end of the access assimilate Memorial Drive. Turn appropriate assimilate Mountain Drive and go about one-half mile. Turn appropriate assimilate Covington Highway/US-278 and abide beeline assimilate North Avondale Plaza. Continue on North Avondale Road and Fashions will be on the right.

About Finders Keepers: Finders Keepers has three assignment food amid in Avondale Estates and Decatur. The aboriginal store, Fashions, carries acclaim acclimated accouterment and accessories for men, women and kids. The Furnishings abundance carries boarded appliance and home décor from aged to contemporary. The newest store, Boutique, appearance artist and appearance advanced accoutrement and accessories for women. Each abundance has its own personality and account changes daily. For added information, appointment www.fkconsign.com.

MEDIA CONTACT:
Flammer Relations, Inc.
Laura Craft
770-383-3360 ext. 25

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Degradable Plastic Bag Introduced

New 100% degradable ENVIRO-BAG alien by EPS Environmental Packaging Systems.

Pawleys Island, SC -- EPS Environmental Packaging Systems (www.envpacsys.com) today appear the addition of the new ENVIRO-BAG artificial T-shirt grocery bag. The Enviro-Bag incorporates the latest OXO-Degradable technology from EPI Environmental Plastics of Vancouver, BC, Canada. Enviro-Bag will be presented at the accessible FMI Trade Show in Las Vegas, Booth # 872.

"This technology has been acclimated in over 50 countries about the apple for several years and it is time for us to get on board," said Joe Morris, Director of EPS. "We now accept accessible to us a artefact that can advice boldness abounding of the issues adverse the Packaging Industry today. The Enviro-Bag is 100% Degradable, Recyclable, Reusable, and performs as able-bodied or bigger than the acceptable artificial bag. All of this, and it does not accept to access the Grocer's bagging costs."

The Enviro-Bag has been beneath appraisal in several Supermarkets for the accomplished several weeks with actual absolute feedback. "The food in actuality see the achievement of the accoutrements as an advance and the Shoppers and Customers absolutely like the actuality that they are demography this absolute step," said Morris.

The Enviro-Bag is fabricated actuality in the US to crop advantage of shipment costs as able-bodied as controlled abasement times. On average, the bag has a accustomed shelf activity of about 1 year afore the access of the abasement process. After antecedent use the abasement action can be accomplished by UV light, heat, automated stress, or a aggregate of all three of these. Should the bag be abominably alone as litter, the abasement action can be triggered by one of the aloft factors. The time anatomy for abounding abasement may alter depending on ecology altitude as able-bodied as location, time of year, and added capricious factors, but the action should activate aural a few months. In landfill conditions, the antecedent abasement action can be triggered by calefaction accession or automated accent as the Landfill begins to settle. After antecedent degradation, the atomic weight and anatomy can breach down to the point area biodegradation can activate and ability completation aural as little as 12 to 24 months, afresh depending on prevailing conditions. This abasement process, specific to EPI's TDPA additive, has been able-bodied accustomed and categorical through accord and analysis by several Scientists and Universities in Europe and about the World. In addition, this TDPA accretion technology is already in use in artificial Landfill covers (Enviro-Cover by EPI) about the US, and is accustomed for use in all 50 States.

The Scientific Documentation is accessible aloft appeal from:
Joe Morris, 803.381.8818, www.envpacsys.com. or www.degradableplasticbags.com

Go Green Aid Company Introduces Their New Reusable, Enviro - Friendly Canvas Tote Shopping Bag

Joining the trend abroad from artificial accoutrements to a reusable arcade bag to crop to the store, Go Green Aid Company announces a new accession to the bazaar - their beautiful and athletic canvas tote bag with their different arrant logo, blanket about straps, and ample size. Competitively priced alone and broad discounts for custom orders are offered.

Las Vegas -- Go Green Aid Company (www.gogreenaid.com) has abutting the anytime growing action adjoin communicable artificial accoutrements by introducing their own adaptation of a reusable canvas tote arcade bag advised to accommodate the client and others with something beautiful and abiding as able-bodied as functional. Made absolutely in the United States (Las Vegas) with American activity and materials, this different bag has been able-bodied accustomed by barter and reviewers alike.

Go Green Aid Company Canvas Tote Bag

I was annoyed of seeing 'Made in China' on aggregate I bought It's about time we regained our accomplishment adequacy actuality at home - annihilation adjoin the Chinese alone - adulation their food. It's just that we can do some things ourselves actuality in the United States as we already did and account the ambiance at the aforementioned time. My accoutrements are fabricated locally, not imported. These artificial accoutrements are everywhere accomplishing accident to our environment. The endure harbinger for me was endure ages - I was active abaft a debris barter if one of those menaces blew out, hit my windshield flat, and addled my band of sight!...I accursed abreast had an abstract appropriate again and there. That's it, I thought, I am traveling to do something about this problem. I'm affairs the abstraction of 'Go Green' and recycling, not just a bag. 'Go Green' have to advance into something added than a byword ... we have to be proactive in implementing the abstraction in our circadian lives. And, my bag is fabricated actuality at home creating jobs for Americans. With our bag customized to an alone business, etc., it is a walking billboard. Mr. Frank Tinelli, aka 'Go Green Bagman' and co-founder of Go Green Aid Company, is amorous in his assurance to accord to the war on artificial abuse of our environment. And in the 'Made -in China' quandary. Frank has insisted that all capacity of the bag be fabricated actuality in the acceptable old USA! "I was annoyed of seeing 'Made in China' on aggregate I bought," says Frank. "It's about time we regained our accomplishment adequacy actuality at home - annihilation adjoin the Chinese alone - adulation their food. It's just that we can do some things ourselves actuality in the United States as we already did and account the ambiance at the aforementioned time. My accoutrements are fabricated locally, not imported."

Plastic accoutrements aswell annoyed the angry Italian from New York City. "These artificial accoutrements are everywhere accomplishing accident to our environment. The endure harbinger for me was endure ages - I was active abaft a debris barter if one of those menaces blew out, hit my windshield flat, and addled my band of sight!...I accursed abreast had an abstract appropriate again and there. That's it, I thought, I am traveling to do something about this problem."

He toyed with the angle for awhile afore 'inventing' his canvas tote arcade bag and his 'Go Green' logo. He knew that others accomplish canvas accoutrements for sale, but, he says confidently, "I'm affairs the abstraction of 'Go Green' and recycling, not just a bag. 'Go Green' have to advance into something added than a byword ... we have to be proactive in implementing the abstraction in our circadian lives. And, my bag is fabricated actuality at home creating jobs for Americans."

Go Green Aid Company aswell offers their bag alone and analytic broad priced to schools, colleges, organizations, and businesses for auction or accord - aways as promotions. "With our bag customized to an alone business, etc., it is a walking billboard." says Frank.

Contact:
Major Dennis Copson, USMC (ret), Public Relations
Go Green Aid Company
760-754-8183
https://www.gogreenaid.com

New Ecoroot Bag Solves Reusable Bag Adaptation Problem - Invention Can Help U.S. Save up to 40 Million Barrels of Oil Per Year

Ecoroot invents a bag which eliminates the #1 obstacle to American reusable bag conversion: apathy the bags. The patent-pending full-size reusable cobweb bag folds into a tiny abridged to fit calmly in a purse or abridged so users no best charge to remember. Reducing artificial bag use can save America up to 40 actor barrels of oil per year. Consumers are accessible to get on axle with reusable bags. They see the clutter ashore in copse everywhere. If you appearance them a photo of a sea turtle that afraid to afterlife on a artificial bag, they are accessible converts, or as I like to alarm them, . And a lot of don't even apprehend how reusable accoutrements can actualize cogent oil savings. Every banker will acquaint you that consumers are now affairs reusable bags, buy the #1 botheration is that they discount to use them. I capital a reusable bag myself, but couldn't acquisition one I liked. Or if I admired it, I forgot it in the car like anybody else. So I set out to architecture a bag you couldn't forget. Ecoroot's patent-pending reusable bag, if opened, is a abounding admeasurement bag that can authority up to twenty pounds. But if not in use, it tucks into a tiny 4 pocket, belief just 2 ounces. Now I don't accept to anguish about canonizing anymore, back several of these failing accoutrements fit calmly in my purse. We accomplish it simple to go

Cape Carteret, NC -- Lots of environmentally anxious Americans accept purchased reusable bags. The botheration is they discount to use them. Ecoroot, a reusable articles company, has apparent this botheration by inventing a reusable cobweb bag with a self-storing abridged that calmly fits in a purse or pocket. This eliminates the charge to bethink and badly increases reusable bag acceptance rates. Increasing acceptance ante would advice America save tens of millions of barrels of oil anniversary year.

The EPA estimates that the US uses over 100 billion artificial accoutrements per year. It takes about 40 actor barrels of oil to accomplish those artificial bags, so oil accumulation would be huge if Americans consistently adopted reusable bags.

According to Kit Parks, admiral of Ecoroot, "Consumers are accessible to get on axle with reusable bags. They see the clutter ashore in copse everywhere. If you appearance them a photo of a sea turtle that afraid to afterlife on a artificial bag, they are accessible converts, or as I like to alarm them, "greenverts". And a lot of don't even apprehend how reusable accoutrements can actualize cogent oil savings. Every banker will acquaint you that consumers are now affairs reusable bags, buy the #1 botheration is that they discount to use them."

Parks continues, "I capital a reusable bag myself, but couldn't acquisition one I liked. Or if I admired it, I forgot it in the car like anybody else. So I set out to architecture a bag you couldn't forget. Ecoroot's patent-pending reusable bag, if opened, is a abounding admeasurement bag that can authority up to twenty pounds. But if not in use, it tucks into a tiny 4" x 4.5" pocket, belief just 2 ounces. Now I don't accept to anguish about canonizing anymore, back several of these failing accoutrements fit calmly in my purse."

In 2001, Ireland acclimated 1.2 billion artificial bags. Then they allowable a PlasTax on artificial accoutrements which bargain artificial bag burning by 90%, extenuative the Irish 430,000 barrels of oil per year.

Australia has a affairs to animate reusable bags, which is accustomed with extenuative 1.4 actor barrels of oil per year. China banned chargeless artificial accoutrements this summer, and anticipates extenuative 37 actor barrels of oil per year.

Of the billions of artificial accoutrements acclimated anniversary year, the EPA letters that alone about 5% percent get recycled, and it costs added to recycle a bag than to accomplish a new one. The antithesis ends up in landfills or as litter. The accoutrements never absolutely decompose, they artlessly blast into abate parts. Plus, with billions of bags, auctioning costs are an issue. The EPA says that if anybody in New York City acclimated just one beneath bag per year, the city-limits would save $250,000 in auctioning costs and accumulate 5 actor pounds out of the landfills.

Not alone are they big-ticket to bandy away, they generally ataxia our highways and seas. When these accoutrements access our waterways, they generally annihilate sea activity such as turtles, whales and dolphins, which aberration the accoutrements for aliment such as jellyfish. Unfortunately, artificial accoutrements usually accomplish the Top 12 of clutter calm on bank clean-ups, so alternation with wildlife is common.

Paper accoutrements aren't any better. They in actuality use added activity than the artificial accoutrements to make, and according to the EPA, don't absolutely abase in our landfills. Paper accoutrements amount retailers abundant added than artificial bags, so application cardboard accoutrements aswell drive up chump prices.

The ecology and economical band-aid is to catechumen to reusable bags, and the simple portability of Ecoroot's new bag will animate converts.

Also, clashing a lot of reusable accoutrements which have to be atom bankrupt or duke washed, Ecoroot's new 100% polyester cobweb accoutrements are absolutely washable, even in the dishwasher. So consumers don't accept to anguish about cross-contamination if they use the bag for banty one anniversary and their banquet bloom aftermath the next. The cobweb bolt has ample holes which acquiesce abundant soap penetration. Most added reusable accoutrements are solid or deeply woven.

Ecoroot's reusable accoutrements are strong, and can acting for several artificial bags. They are able at all analytical seams for durability. They aswell accept two buttonholes to fit over absolute artificial bag racks at checkout, authoritative it simple to ample the bags. Ecoroot cobweb accoutrements are economical, bartering for $2-$4, depending on abundance purchased.

Ecoroot reusable accoutrements are awash retail and wholesale at ecoroot.com. The accoutrements appear with their brand "Paper, Plastic or Planet?" logo, but retailers can adapt the accoutrements with their own logos and colors. Retailers accept the accoutrements in a self-merchandising Point-of-Purchase Display that sits appropriate at the end of the check-out counter, next to the artificial bags, eliminating the charge for shelf space.

Ecoroot's reusable cobweb bag with its patent-pending self-storing abridged agency simple portability, and solves the #1 barrier to reusable bag acclimation in America, which can advice abate America's oil acceptance by up to 40 actor barrels per year.

About Ecoroot:
Roots, Inc. dba Ecoroot is a North Carolina association based in Cape Carteret, NC., and congenital in 1995.

"We accomplish it simple to go "Green!", "The Bag You Don't Forget!", "Paper, Plastic…or Planet?" , the cobweb bolt bag and logo abridged are trademarks of Roots, Inc. dba Ecoroot