Bang Consortium

FAIR TRADE ECO BAGS BY BANG CONSORTIUM “BUILDING A NEW GENERATION”

In 2005, five busy Sydney mums left behind various professional careers and pooled their talents in order to create a business opportunity that would recognise their joint interests in the environment and in the betterment of women and children in the developing world.

They realised that the proliferation of supermarket “green” bags, while solving one problem in reducing plastic bag use, was creating another in the public’s increasing dependence on a product made of polypropylene, which neither breaks down in landfill nor is it currently recycled. They decided there had to be better-looking and more eco-friendly solutions.

In doing so, they established BANG consortium, a fair trade business with a unique consumer brand featuring the handicraft skills of the people of Bangladesh. Their aim was to combine contemporary Australian designs with fair trade methods of production, creating a range of affordable, environmentally sustainable shopping bags that could be made from biodegradable, compostable jute, one of Bangladesh’s reviving industries.

Why BANG?
They chose BANG to brand their products for its link with BANGladesh, and for what they would like the letters themselves to stand for – Building A New Generation of socially and environmentally aware consumers and retailers.

The Real Green Bag has won BANG consortium the Keep Australia Beautiful Plastic Bag Reduction Award for NSW (Business category) for 2006.

BANG consortium is a member of the Fair Trade Association of Australia and New Zealand and our producers are members of IFAT, the international body of fair trade organizations.

Bang Consortium Bags - Real Green Jute Bag (Natural)

$10.95