EUROPEAN PLASTICS NEWS
Published: October 14, 2014 9:16 am ET
Updated: October 14, 2014 9:32 am ET

Image By: Starlinger & Co.
Starlinger & Co. has made a woven plastic reusable bag which promotes local shopping in Berndorf, Austria, as well as being "green."

The Austrian city of Berndorf has made shopping more environmentally friendly and promote local businesses by introducing the Berndorf Bag, a bag constructed from woven plastic.

The bag was developed by Austrian technology supplier Starlinger & Co under the product name CB*star for the campaign ‟I shop in Berndorf.”

Sandra Kreger, initiator of the community project, said: ‟Our customers love the bag, and I can only encourage other towns to take up the idea which is good for the environment, the economy and the customers.”

Kregar, who owns a small Italian delicatessen in Berndorf, was introduced to Starlinger’s CB*star bag by a customer who worked for the company.

‟CB*star bags are conveniently light, can carry up to 25 kilograms and are reusable many times,” Kreger said. ‟They are also good-looking, attractively priced and completely recyclable, therefore environment-friendly.” 

After 14 other businesses in Berndorf also became interested in using the bag, the project ‟I shop in Berndorf” was born.

Starlinger is a Vienna-based engineering company with production sites in Weissenbach and St. Martin, Austria, as well as in Taicang, China.