Bring Your Own Bag Day!

Did you know the average American uses 500 disposable plastic bags a year? And that less than 5% of those are recycled after only one use? The majority end up in our landfills and oceans, and that's just plain awful.

Ditch the disposables for Bring Your Own Bag Day on Thursday, December 15th in Santa Cruz County!

Save Our Shores will be on location from 4-6pm to hand out these custom-made, free reusable bags at these participating retail outlets:

• Mi Pueblo Foods in Watsonville
• The Capitola Mall
• Live Oak Supermarket
• Staples
• Kmart in Scotts Valley
• Scotts Valley Market
• Nob Hill Foods in Scotts Valley

 

Thousands of additional reusable bags will be given out by our Partner locations:

In the City of Santa Cruz:

• Charlie Hong Kong: Handing out their own reusable bags.
• New Leaf Westside: It's Double Enviro-Token Day!
• New Leaf Downtown: It's Double Enviro-Token Day!
• Whole Foods Market on Soquel Ave: Distributing mesh produce bags while supplies last!

In Unincorporated Santa Cruz County:

• Safeway in Aptos: Handing out reusable bags while supplies last!
• Safeway on 41st Avenue: Handing out reusable bags while supplies last!
• Safeway in Felton: Handing out reusable bags while supplies last!
• Safeway on Freedom Boulevard: Handing out reusable bags while supplies last!
• New Leaf Felton: It's Double Enviro-Token Day!
• New Leaf Boulder Creek: It's Double Enviro-Token Day!
  
• Safeway on Mt. Herman Road: Handing out reusable bags while supplies last!
  

In the City of Capitola:

• New Leaf Capitola: Its Double Enviro-Token Day!
• Whole Foods on 41st Avenue: Distributing produce bags while supplies last!

It takes a community to protect our Sanctuary.
Become a Member of Save Our Shores today!

 

Save Our Shores thanks the City of Capitola, City of Scotts Valley, and Green Waste for Sponsoring our custom-made Bring Your Own Bag Day canvas bags to help reduce pollution in our ocean and communities.

The City of Santa Cruz, County of Santa Cruz, and City of Watsonville are also helping with the county-wide effort by supplying reusable bags and funding for Bring Your Own Bag Day efforts on December 15th!

This is the very first Bring Your Own Bag Day in Santa Cruz.We are amazed at the number of businesses, large and small, who quickly signed on to participate. They are each making a positive impact on our environment by reducing the overall amount of plastic pollution that litters our communities, watersheds, and ocean.

“The detrimental impacts of single-use plastic bags are indisputable. From the oil needed to manufacture and transport bags around the planet to the massive amount of plastic trash destroying our oceans, threatening marine life, and contaminating our food web, this relic of the past is a wasteful contributor to pollution.”
Says Mark Stone, Santa Cruz County Supervisor and author of Santa Cruz County’s ordinance to ban plastic bags.