Materials & Claims

One — no broad environmental claims

We do not describe our products with the general environmental adjectives common in this category. Regulators in the United States have been clear for years that unqualified environmental benefit claims are effectively impossible to substantiate, because they imply a whole-lifecycle benefit that almost no product can evidence.

So we do not make them. Not on product pages, not in headings, not in email, not in the descriptions we would give a retailer. If you find one on this site, it is an error and we want to know: support@bagsofnature.shop.

Two — no disposal or breakdown claims

We make no claim about what happens to one of our bags at the end of its life. A claim about how a material breaks down depends entirely on the conditions it breaks down in — a home pile, an industrial facility, or landfill are three completely different outcomes, and we control none of them.

Where a specific item ever holds a certification covering that behaviour, we will state it with the certifying body and the certificate number, and not before.

Three — no recovery or reprocessing claims

We do not claim that our bags can be put into any particular waste stream, because whether that is true depends on the facilities available where you live, not on what we manufacture.

What we will tell you plainly: the body fabric of every bag is a single plant fibre or a stated blend, the thread is named on the product page, and the hardware is named separately because it is a different material from the bag. What your local facilities accept is a question for them, and we would rather you ask them than trust a logo we printed.

Four — only verifiable facts

Every product page states, without exception:

• The fibre and its weight, for the body, lining, thread and hardware.
• Where the fabric was woven and where the bag was made.
• Whether the piece was dyed. If it was, the dye type is named. If it was not, we say undyed rather than natural.
• Measured width, height, depth and empty weight, plus a suggested load in kilograms.
• How to clean it, and what will damage it.
• At least one thing the fibre does badly.

Anything we cannot state in that form does not go on the page.

Five — a certification means a number

Where an item holds a certification, we display the name of the certifying body and the certificate number, so you can verify it with the body directly rather than taking our word for it.

No item on this site currently carries such a certification, so no certification marks appear anywhere on it. The section is built into every product page and stays hidden until there is a real number to put in it. We will not display a badge, a logo or a claim we cannot back with a document.

The four fibres and their weaknesses

• Cotton Canvas — Woven in Gujarat, India. Undyed canvas yellows in sunlight over months.
• Jute — Woven in West Bengal, India. Unlined jute sheds fibres for the first few uses.
• Cork — Harvested and backed in Alentejo, Portugal. Cork spots if soaked. Wipe it, never submerge it.
• Linen — Woven in Kaunas, Lithuania. Linen creases. That is the fibre, not a defect.

Each fibre page carries a photograph of the weakness rather than a description of it, because a photograph is harder to soften.

How to hold us to this

If any statement on this site looks like a claim we cannot support, write to support@bagsofnature.shop quoting the page. We will either show you the evidence or remove the sentence, and we will tell you which one we did.

The same standard applies to what we tell wholesale customers. Custom orders come with the fibre, weight, origin and dye facts and nothing more — see bulk and custom orders.