TOMbag- Re-usable Garbage Bag

TOMbag was created to solve the single-use garbage bag problem.

Designed from the ground up, we've created the world's first reusable garbage bag that's sustainable and that simply looks awesome!

WE'RE ON A MISSION TO RID THE WORLD OF SINGLE-USE GARBAGE BAGS WITH OUR SUSTAINABLE AND REUSABLE ALTERNATIVES.

AS A MISSION-LED SOCIAL ENTERPRISE WE ARE COMMITTED TO DONATE A MINIMUM OF 2% OF OUR REVENUES EACH YEAR TO CHARITABLE PARTNERS WITH AN ENVIRONMENTAL FOCUS. 

Why Reusable Garbage Bags?

Reusable bags have primarily focused on solving the single-use shopping bag problem. However, till now, consumers have had no real solution for replacing single-use garbage bin liners. 

In many countries, including Australia, government and industry have introduced policies to ban single-use plastic bags and make consumers pay for reusable plastic shopping bags.These efforts have had a definite decrease in the use of single-use plastic bags for shopping. However, when single-use plastic bags were given for free in the past by retailers, many consumers had reused these bags as garbage bags at home. This was a habit formed and repeated for decades. 

And as old habits die hard, new reusable plastic bags offered for a small fee by retailers are now used by many consumers as garbage bin liners. The problem is that new plastic bags are 10 times thicker as their predecessors and need to be used more than 4 times to be more sustainable. They also take up to 10,000 years to degrade in landfills. They therefore pose much bigger threat to our environment. Utilising thicker plastic bags as garbage bin liners is not the only negative consequence of single-use bag plastics bans. A few research studies suggested that after such bans were in place, there has been a substantial increase in the purchase of single-use plastic garbage bags. The problem of single-use plastic bags thus continues.

Here at TOMbag, we are passionate about solving this escalating problem by bringing to the world a reusable garbage bag alternative. 

How it works:

Line your kitchen tidy bin (or other suitable bin) with your TOMbag reusable garbage bag. Use the top inner layer to cover your bins brim and secure tightly using the cord stopper.

Hey, it's a garbage bag, fill it with your household trash as normal. Pro tip: You can separate food scraps for composting or wrap it into old newspaper.

Once full, use the inner layer cord tie to tighten your TOMbag reusable garbage bag closed. Take your full bag to your main bin, open and empty garbage holding one side of the top handle and the bottom handle. A couple shakes and you're done.  

Take your TOMbag reusable garbage bag back to your home or office to be reused again. And again. (you get the idea).