Our Mission
Bags On The Run is founded on and dedicated to supplying an environmental and corporate difference.
Our mission consists of 2 important keys:
PRODUCT MISSION: To produce and sell the most eco-friendly reusable
bags, while promoting business practices that respect the Earth and the
Environment.
SOCIAL MISSION: To urge people to think “GREEN” when shopping by
refusing plastic bags in favor of eco-friendly reusable bags.
STATISTICS:
- The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) estimates that plastic bags take between 500-1000 years to break down in landfills.
- Plastic bags result in killing huge numbers of birds, whales, seals, turtles and other animals every year.
- According to a Wall Street Journal article “A Guide to Going Green”…”The EPA says solid waste, per person has nearly doubled to 4.4 pounds a day from 2.7 pounds in the past 35 years—filling up landfill sites and wasting materials that could be reused to save natural resources and energy.” Reusing items like our Bags on the Run reusable bags is an effective way to reduce your day-to-day use of materials such as plastic or paper bags which end up in landfills.
ADVANTAGES OF OUR REUSABLE BAG:
- Holds more shopping than plastic bags, up to 22lbs
- 100% recyclable.
- Wider handles, easier on hands.
- Washable
- Large selection of colors
Our Standards
Not only do we care deeply about the environment BagsOnTheRun believes in fair, ethical treatment of our customers our vendors and our manufacturers. To exhibit our commitment to these principles we have dedicated significant resources to an independent third party firm to monitor and evaluate our overseas manufacturing facilities to test and verify that ethical workplace standards exist and are being practiced. Our third party administrator, VERITE, has certified that BagsOnTheRun facilities do not hire child labor, all workers are at-will and not forced laborers, discrimination of workers on the basis of sex, religion, color or creed is prohibited. Our administrators must also certify that any worker has the right to form or join a trade union to protect their labor interests, that working hours are reasonable and that wages are consistent with the minimum wage and overtime laws for the country in which the labor occurs.
Our company is a United States Corporation that is based in the State of Arizona. We strongly believe in the United Nations charter on Human Rights and support the spirit of this charter throughout any workplace we contract, engage or work with throughout the world.
In addition to our commitment to human rights and working conditions BagsOnTheRun strives to produce and sell the finest quality reusable bag in the marketplace. Our firm also certifies that harmful materials like lead are not present in products that we sell. We use an EPA certified laboratory to test that lead or other harmful chemicals do not exist in the materials we sell.
