Last month at the San Francisco Green Festival, ReusableBags.com received Green America’s second-ever Longtime Leadership Award, which honors businesses that take the top spot in the People’s Choice contest more than once.
ReusableBags.com previously won Green America’s People’s Choice Award in 2007. Since launching in 2003, the company has grown to provide hundreds of high-quality reusables in more than 30 categories, has empowered 210,000+ customers to save an astounding 800,000,000 use-and-toss items and has been an important catalyst in the broad reusables movement. ReusableBags.com also serves as an information hub, providing myth-busting articles, news and more on issues related to over-consumption.
“We’ve always been about much more than just bags. Reuseit.com - the new name for our store - accurately reflects our growing family of practical, high-quality reusables for every part of your life,” said Vincent Cobb, founder of ReusableBags.com. “From day one, it’s been our mission to empower people with the best tools to break their addiction to disposables.”
The Green America People’s Choice Award winners were chosen by individual voters across the country. Each year, thousands of consumers nationwide take part in a Green America online questionnaire to select their favorite green businesses, and nominees are then narrowed to the top ten. The public was then invited to vote for their favorite amongst the ten finalists, and fifteen thousand people participated. Reusablebags.com just edged out finalist Care2.com for the most number of votes. Both Care2.com and Lunapads International also took home awards at this year’s event. Past winners include IdealBite and Ten Thousand Villages.
“It is truly exciting to see tens of thousands of environmentally and socially conscious consumers from around the country take part in voting for their favorite green business this year.” said Green America’s Green Business Director, Denise Hamler. “All of this year’s finalists are leaders in creating a green economy and we thank each of them for their leadership in demonstrating that successful businesses can also uphold the highest environmental and social values.”
Green America (http://www.GreenAmericaToday.org) is a non-profit membership organization founded in 1982 with the mission to harness economic power—the strength of consumers, investors, businesses, and the marketplace—and to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society.
About ReusableBags.com
The Reusablebags.com store (soon to be Reuseit.com) is the leading online source for high-quality reusable products and the site provides information on the problems related to over-consumption of use-and-toss items. Recognized as a leader and innovator, the company won the prestigious Green Business of the Year, People's Choice Award in 2007 and is a BizRate Circle of Excellence Gold Honoree. Reusablebags.com/Reuseit.com is an authentic, triple-bottom-line company, supporting Fair Trade Practices and donating one percent of all sales to environmental causes through 1% For the Planet. The site has been featured in hundreds of news stories, including NPR's Marketplace, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal and was endorsed in An Inconvenient Truth.
