Nevada Based Newspaper Features The Best Bag

REUSABLE GROCERY SACKS: Going bagless
Environmental activist’s efforts designed to help shrink landfills

By DANIELLE NADLER
VIEW STAFF WRITER

“Plastic bags are bad,” Kurt Nicholson uttered frankly.

It’s been the mantra for the past 23 years that’s driven the 50-year-old Spring Valley resident to design and market durable, reusable bags in an effort to shrink the mountain of both paper and plastic bags that loom in landfills.

Kurt Nicholson is aiming to make the world bagless with his The Best Bags.Marlene Karas/View

With his multicolored polyester bags in hand and determination in his eye, Nicholson is aiming to make the globe bagless. Nicholson has had little trouble selling the idea to conserve bags to several communities
throughout the world.

As of March, his product, called The Best Bag, can be spotted in the hands of people in China, Australia, France, Ireland, Germany, Israel and the United States, toting most everything from groceries to books. Various companies, schools and governments have purchased bags to either resell or give away. Read Full Feature Cover Article