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Sustainable Shopping Bag
LoopTas is more than just a bag. LoopTas is more than just a bag. LoopTas is more than just a bag.
Sustainable Shopping Bag
LoopTas is more than just a bag. LoopTas is more than just a bag. LoopTas is more than just a bag.
Supports below poverty coastal communities
Zero waste
Circular Economy
Plant free trees
Problem
After the ban on free single-use plastic bags, reusable bags have become the new standard, these contain up to five times as much plastics as traditional single-use bags. On average every european uses 175 plastic bags each year . 90% of Takeaway & apparels shopping bags are not used more than once. One truck load of plastic enters ocean every minute. By 2030, there will be more plastic than fishes in our oceans
“Our motivation is to establish a high-impact social enterprise.”
We believe that businesses with innovative products and unique approaches are capable of changing people’s lives and making the world a better place than we found.
We developed LoopTas to solve one of the most important problems on the earth which is waste management, especially plastic. Our approach is to utilize already produced and discarded materials to produce Looptas shopping bags which can contribute to existing plastic crises and at the same time helps to create a better future. Together with you, we are ready to create a sustainable, circular economy that benefits everyone.
175
Plastic Bags
On average every european used plastic bags each year
90
%
Takeaway & apparels shopping bags are not used more than once.
80
%
Plastic Waste not recycled instead burnt or dumped into landfills and oceans
1
Truck
Load of plastic enters ocean every minute
2030
By Year
There will be more plastic than fishes in our oceans
Have you been in one of the situations below ?
Spontaneous groceries shopping plans (on the way from work or Gym etc). Forgetting to carry a bag, Now we already have more bags at home just sitting around.
Don’t worry we got you covered. Easy and unique solution : “LoopTas”
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How It Works
Enschede pilot project
1. Collect / Order
From either partner shops or online. Pay a small deposit
2. Reuse
Every time you go shopping, take the LoopTas. Also, tap your mobile on the bag to check all the information about the bag. (every bag is NFC enabled)
3. Return
When you have more bags than you need or if a bag has aged out, you can return it and get your deposit back.
Our Impact
LoopTas thus achieves concrete sustainable results through keeping the product in the cycle which means more reuses leads to more sustainable with least carbon footprint. With LoopTas you make impact, in three ways,
Save a million
shopping bags
Wherever you go shopping or order food online, you either get paid plastic bags or free paper bags. Paper bags are never reused after the first use, and the ban on free plastic bags since 2016 has pushed us to pay for plastic bags whenever we need them. Every Dutch citizen uses an average 245 shopping bags per year. That’s 3.9 billion in total. That is a lot and also unnecessary. With Looptas’ circular reusable system, we take used bags, clean them, and put them back into use.
Support coastal communities
around the world
Our partnership with a Canadian-based organization called “plastic bank,” which has ethical recycling ecosystems in coastal communities (like Haiti, Brazil, Indonesia, the Philippines) and reprocesses the materials for reintroduction into the global manufacturing supply chain. Communities are compensated for the materials they gather, which allows them to better fulfill basic family necessities like groceries, school tuition, and health insurance. Collected material is reborn as Social Plastic®, which is then reintegrated into LoopTas.
Much less
carbon footprint
Our partnership with a Canadian-based organization called “plastic bank,” which has ethical recycling ecosystems in coastal communities (like Haiti, Brazil, Indonesia, the Philippines) and reprocesses the materials for reintroduction into the global manufacturing supply chain. Communities are compensated for the materials they gather, which allows them to better fulfill basic family necessities like groceries, school tuition, and health insurance. Collected material is reborn as Social Plastic®, which is then reintegrated into LoopTas.
Testimonials
“We measure our business value in terms of impact created, not in terms revenue generated”
“We measure our business value in terms of impact created, not in terms revenue generated”
“We measure our business value in terms of impact created, not in terms revenue generated”
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