Die Cut Handle Bags
A seaweed-based bag solution for retail, markets, events, and beyond.
✓ Luxurious look and feel
✓ Durable, lightweight, weather-proof
✓ Made from seaweed, plants, and home compostable polymers
Made with
Seaweed
Replenishes ecosystems and grows abundantly
High Performing
Matches necessary qualities of traditional plastic bags
Engaging Experience
Attract customer attention and showcase sustainability
100% Compostable
Home & industrial compost certification pending
The emblem of our planet’s plastic crisis now has a scalable (seaweed-y) solution.
Durable enough for grocery hauls. Moisture-resistant for farmers market veggies. Premium and customizable to showcase your brand.
This bag may perform like plastic, but it lasts only as long as it’s needed. In home or industrial compost, it breaks down into healthy soil – not microplastics.
It’s made using a regenerative ingredient: seaweed! This abundant, fast-growing crop purifies oceans, builds biodiversity, and supports thriving coastal livelihoods. Every bag helps support healthy ecosystems and communities.
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FAQ
Why We Made It
150,000 plastic bags are produced every second. That’s 5 trillion every year – enough to circle the planet 7 times. Just 2% are recycled, while the rest persist forever in landfills, nature, and our bodies. Research shows the average American ingests up to 12 shopping bags worth of toxic plastic particles annually.
Paper is obviously better – but can’t beat plastic’s durability. We’ve all had a paper bag rip with a heavy load, or disintegrate when exposed to moisture. Reusable totes are the best option – when we remember to bring them, and if we use them enough times to justify their resource intensity.
Each year, unthinkable amounts of retail bags cycle through a flawed system, creating waste that burdens landfills and pollutes waterways. It’s time for a solution that provides the best functions of plastic, while remaining gentle on our planet.
Sway created this bag to optimize inputs, use, and afterlife.
• Regenerative ingredients: Formulated with seaweed, a regenerative marine crop that nourishes ecosystems as it grows. Plus, it’s rapidly renewable. Some species grow up to 2 feet per day!
• Engineered just enough: Stronger than paper, but won't last forever like plastic. After its original use, this bag should be reused as many times as possible.
• Truly circular: Compost this bag via home or industrial systems after use. Better yet, use it as a compost bin liner!
Use Cases
This bag is versatile for a variety of customer-facing uses. From boutiques to department stores, concerts to sporting events, farmers markets to restaurants, this bag is ready to make waves anywhere your community is!
Look & Feel
• Thickness: 3-4mil
• Color: Cream to golden
• Clarity: Frosted (7-8% opacity)
• Texture: Soft, premium, flexible, lightweight
• Color: Cream to golden
• Clarity: Frosted (7-8% opacity)
• Texture: Soft, premium, flexible, lightweight
Performance
• Durability: High*
• Tear Strength: Medium*
• Oxygen barrier: Medium*
• Grease barrier: High*
• Shelf life: ~18 months when stored in cool, dry conditions
• Tear Strength: Medium*
• Oxygen barrier: Medium*
• Grease barrier: High*
• Shelf life: ~18 months when stored in cool, dry conditions
*As compared with competitive compostable films.
Customization
• Printable
• Multiple sizes available
• Stock and custom designs available
• Multiple sizes available
• Stock and custom designs available
Formulation
The Sway Die Cut Handle Bag is made by blending Sway’s core technology TPSea™ (a Certified 100% Biobased pellet, made entirely from seaweed and plants) with a non-renewable, Certified Home Compostable polymer. This material (TPSea Flex™) is majority biobased.
End of Life
• Reuse this bag as many times as you can, then compost through either home or industrial facilities.*
• Our favorite option is to use it as a compost bin liner!
• Our favorite option is to use it as a compost bin liner!
*TUV Home & Industrial Compost Certification pending, expected Q3 2025
Ready to try seaweed materials?
Sway Die Cut Handle Bags are available via our packaging production partner, EcoEnclose. Start the conversation today about stock or custom designed bags!
