Alternative Solution Number 2: Onya Bags

The biggest problem with taking your own bags shopping is the amount of space that they take up. Even plastic bags are quite bulky and likely to have people looking at you funny when you have five of them scrunched up in your trouser-pocket. Enter Onya.

Onya make three kinds of bag, each better-suited to the role of carrying-stuff-around than plastic bags could ever be. Their bags are made from parachute material and hence are fantastically lightweight and won’t weigh you down in the slightest, unless you carry 10,000 of them around on you at one time, in which case you forfeited the right to complain when you signed the “Strongest Man in the World” disclaimer. Despite their flimsy appearance, loads of up to ten kilograms can be lugged around in Onya Bags; four-times more than a standard carrier bag, or so they claim!

The best part about Onya Bags however, is their capacity to scrunch. Whether it be the Onya Original in the style of a regular plastic bag, but with nice handles that won’t you’re your fingers drop off; the Onya Back full-sized backpack that compacts into a tiny pouch when not in use; or the Onya Side satchel-like bag worn over the shoulder; all Onya Bags can be scrunched up into a tiny pouch, which can be attached to your belt or bike, or hung from an appropriate piercing.


No more must we face the agony of lugging around bulky bags in which to place all of our eggs! Huzzah Onya – HUZZAH! I have possessed an Onya Side for a couple of years and used it to carry everything from books to uni, clothes to the gym and cables to gigs. I have taken it travelling through Europe with me for a month and around the USA for another month and, despite some ink stainage, it looks and works as good as new.

AMOCERI result: PASS

Onya Bags start from a mere £6.50 and could take the place of over 1000 plastic bags.