Tickets are $50 per person and include hors d’oeuvres, two drink tickets and a tote bags decoration filled with designer items and certificates valued at over $150. Participants will also be able to bid on live and silent auctions, which will include such items as a $2,800 Armani handbag; designer handbags from Italy and Spain; an evening custom printed bag filled with cosmetics, theatre tickets and hotel accommodations; a designer wallet loaded with gift cards to a variety of stores; a custom diaper bag packed with designer baby items and toys; a “custom plastic bag” stuffed with cash; plus much, much more.
A top U.N. official on Monday called for a worldwide ban on single-use "thin" plastic shopping custom bag, the kind you get at the grocery store. "Single-use plastic bag printing which choke marine life should be banned or phased out rapidly everywhere," said Achim Steiner, head of the U.N. Environment Program, according to McClatchy Newspapers. "There is simply zero justification for manufacturing them any more, anywhere."
"Plastic, the most prevalent component of marine debris, poses hazards because it persists so long in the ocean, degrading into tinier and tinier bits that can be consumed by the smallest marine life at the base of the food web," reads the report. But the custom printed shopping bag industry says that its custom bags aren't the problem — it's the people who throw them out.
"Recycling is what we see as the best approach for the U.S.," Keith Christman of the American Chemistry Council told McClatchy. "Plastic is just too valuable to waste." The EPA actually finds that plastic custom printed bags are preferable to paper ones in landfills, because paper degrades too quickly and takes up more room. Nonetheless, countries and cities around the world are starting to ban or tax single-use plastic custom paper bags. Ireland makes customers pay extra for each one; San Francisco has banned them outright, and Los Angeles will do so next year.
My friends at Lowepro asked me if I wanted to try their new Pro Roller x-Series rolling camera custom plastic bag and I jumped at the opportunity. They are not expected to be in retail outlets unit August, but when they are they should be a big hit. I saw prototypes at the Photo Marketing Association show in Las Vegas earlier this year and I liked what I saw there. Executives from the company said they listened to what many of their customers were saying they wanted in a rolling plastic custom plastic bag and it looks like they succeeded in delivering an excellent product.
The suitcase-style rolling custom printed plastic bags are packed with features, but I think the best thing is the newly designed wheels. I've gone through many types of rolling custom plastic bag and almost always I move on to another one due to problems with the wheels. They either break or just wear down way too quickly. I've even had some that can't be replaced once they wear out.
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