Trolley Dolly

Not another item about plastic bag replacement!!! - Well, this is slightly different. If, like us you really want to do your bit, not use plastic bags and have invested in bags for life, canvas bags of some other replacement, have you noticed you never have them handy when you need them?

This might help. The Trolley Dolly is a bag which fixes onto your shopping trolley. Inside it are 14 strength-tested, washable nylon bags and 10 sealable net fruit and veg sacks. As you shop you just pull them out, fill them and then have an easy way to move the shopping into the house. Empty the contents and stuff the bags back in the Trolley Dolly for next time.

Each nylon bag can hold 30 tin cans or 20 bottles of wine (quite who shops like this we have no idea) but it means they are strong and, for the uber organised, they are colour coded so: green for fruit and veg, blue for frozen.

They are on introductory offer at ZPM for £24.95

We sell over 20 million tins of beans a year. Just as well we have a wind farm

When you have over 4,000 outlets trading in businesses as diverse as food, banking, pharmacy, insurance and legal services, your energy demands tend to be rather high. As we aim to be good for everyone, we believe it's our responsibitily to ensure our carbon footprint isn't of Yeti-like proportions. So, we've taken a big step for a retailer and had a wind farm built on our land (with others soon to be constructed). Of course, energy isn't the only thing we like to produce ourselves. We're also the UK's largest farmer. Our food is grown in a responsible and sustainable manner, and much of it is then sold in our stores. 99% of which is powered by renewable energy. Is it any wonder we are Britain's greenest high street retailer?

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Power Purse

One of the problems with eco and solar power products is that they are often badly designed or simply uninspired.

Not so the Power Purse by Joe Hynek. The surface is covered in small solar cells producing an attractive pattern. These don’t look like they have just been ‘stuck on’. Power generated by the cells is sent to an electronic circuit inside the lining of the bag and then onto two inbuilt batteries which can hold energy for up to a month. A USB port is built into the inside of the bag so that you can attach your mp3 player or phone to charge it.

The bag needs around 2 hours of sunlight on its surface to fully charge a mobile phone. The estimated cost is around £150 which is probably a drop in the ocean for the fashion, techno savvy, 21st century woman.

The handbag is due to go on sale online by the end of this year.

For more information, visit www.solarjo.com

[Via Ecofriend]