Oban Plastic Bag Free! is happy to acknowledge being given some excellent airtime on Oban FM radio this Sunday, December 14, 2008, from about 10:30 to 11AM. News editor Coll MacDougall invited Oban Plastic Bag Free! co-facilitator, Margaret Powell-Joss, along to chat with Councillor Roddy McCuish and Adam Hughes, President of the Oban Allotments Association, a sister organisation under the Sustainable Oban umbrella.
In the course of the radio chat, we highlighted the negative consequences of plastic degraded into microparticles that then attract toxins which mimic human hormones -- contributing towards reducing human fertility. We also addressed the issue of plastic pellets and microparticles being ingested by marine organisms and animals -- fish, mammals, birds, whose intestines are filled with plastic rather than food.
For more on this subject, view the video on the Marine Conservation Society website.
Councillor Roddy McCuish expressed his wholehearted endorsement of the Oban Plastic Bag Free! Initiative, asking each and every consumer to re-use bags and to stay away from non-biodegradable plastic. We appreciate his suppport and can only join him in his appeal.
Thank you, Oban FM, for providing this platform -- we will be back on ObanFM after our next meeting on January 23, 2008. More about that in our next post.
Monday, 15 December 2008
Friday, 12 December 2008
Winner of the Oban Plastic Bag Free! Poster Competition
The GRAB Trust project worker for Oban, Lorn and the Isles ran a poster competition to help with the Oban Plastic Bag Free Initiative. It was open to all Primary schools in this area. Nine schools participated in three categories – p1-3, P4-5, P6-7 – for a 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize in each category.The Judges were David Lyon from Quarriers Rooftops Project, Michael Harvey (Shanks) and Elizabeth Mullen (Lorn & Oban Reuse Initiative = LORI)
The Prizes were:
1st Prize: handcrafted wooden pen made by The Employability Team, GRAB Jute Bag and GRAB Pencil made from recycled CD cases
2nd prize: a voucher to use in Orsay, GRAB Jute Bag and GRAB pencil
3rd prize: GRAB Jute Bag and GRAB Pencil.
The Winners were as follows (see photos at the end of this post):
P1-3 category
1st = Eilidh Munro (Barcaldine PS)
2nd = Shona McKenzie (Barcaldine)
3rd = Katie MacCorquardale (Barcaldine)
P4-5 Category
1st = Saffron Carmichael (Salen PS)
2nd Scott Paterson (Salen)
3rd Ben Collins (Barcaldine)
P6-7 Category
1st = Amy Greenwood (Barcaldine PS)
2nd = Charlotte Collins (Barcaldine)
3rd = George Needham (Achaleven PS)
The overall winner was Amy Greenwood, whose poster will be used to highlight the initiative in the windows of shops who are supporting the initiative.
Congratulations, Amy!
Prizewinners of Oban Plastic Bag Free Poster Competition: from back L to R: George Needham Achaleven PS, Amy Greenwood (Barcaldine and overall winner, Charlotte Collins (Barcaldine), Ben Collins (Barcaldine), Front row, Shona McKenzie (Barcaldine), Katie MacCorquardale (Barcaldine) and Eilidh Munro (Barcaldine). Photo © Julie Fairbrass, GRAB Trust, Nov. 2008
Saturday, 15 November 2008
SAMS Endorsement of the Oban Plastic Bag Free! Initiative
We are happy and proud to publish two endorsement messages from the Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory of SAMS, The Scottish Association for Marine Science.
They came in on October 31, 2008, and are published here with permission:
The message from Prof. Laurence Mee, the Director of SAMS, reads as follows:
"You are entirely right that free plastic bags are a bane of modern society and are causing untold environmental damage. It is amazing that the example of Ireland to charge for plastic bags has not been followed in the UK.
I am pleased to see that supermarkets in Oban offer alternatives but we need to go one step further and charge for the plastic ones!
I fully support your campaign and trust that my colleagues will do the same.
Laurence"
The message from the SAMS Activities Manager & Lecturer in Marine Life Sciences, Dr Anuschka Miller, reads:
"further to Laurence's email, a petition about your cause is currently making its way around the staff at SAMS, finding many supporters.
I moved to the UK from Germany some 17 years ago when free plastic bags started to disappear there. It has always perplexed me how slow the UK – which has otherwise become my home of choice – is in adopting even the simplest and most obvious solutions to environmental problems.
These relatively small gestures can make a huge difference to people's behaviour across many activities and I wish you and us all every success with your initiative!
Anuschka"
They came in on October 31, 2008, and are published here with permission:
The message from Prof. Laurence Mee, the Director of SAMS, reads as follows:
"You are entirely right that free plastic bags are a bane of modern society and are causing untold environmental damage. It is amazing that the example of Ireland to charge for plastic bags has not been followed in the UK.
I am pleased to see that supermarkets in Oban offer alternatives but we need to go one step further and charge for the plastic ones!
I fully support your campaign and trust that my colleagues will do the same.
Laurence"
The message from the SAMS Activities Manager & Lecturer in Marine Life Sciences, Dr Anuschka Miller, reads:
"further to Laurence's email, a petition about your cause is currently making its way around the staff at SAMS, finding many supporters.
I moved to the UK from Germany some 17 years ago when free plastic bags started to disappear there. It has always perplexed me how slow the UK – which has otherwise become my home of choice – is in adopting even the simplest and most obvious solutions to environmental problems.
These relatively small gestures can make a huge difference to people's behaviour across many activities and I wish you and us all every success with your initiative!
Anuschka"
Saturday, 11 October 2008
Oban victim of the plastic bag scourge
Hello again
Today's victim of the plastic-bag scourge -- a young seagull at Oban harbour:
© Photo: Margaret Powell-Joss, Oct 11, 2008
© Photo: Margaret Powell-Joss, Oct 11, 2008
What should anyone tossing away any kind of rubbish, but plastic bags in general, be made to do?
Another youngster had one of its legs caught in a snare of fishing line or fishnet. MPJ wasn't quick enough on the uptake to get her camera out (having her fingers greasy with fish & chips didn't help).
Today's victim of the plastic-bag scourge -- a young seagull at Oban harbour:
© Photo: Margaret Powell-Joss, Oct 11, 2008
© Photo: Margaret Powell-Joss, Oct 11, 2008Another youngster had one of its legs caught in a snare of fishing line or fishnet. MPJ wasn't quick enough on the uptake to get her camera out (having her fingers greasy with fish & chips didn't help).
Sunday, 28 September 2008
Oban Plastic Bag Free! at Oban's ABREEF Environment Fair
The Oban Plastic Bag Free! initiative was well represented at this year's ABREEF Oban & Lorn Environment Fair, 25th & 26th September, 2008. Thank you, ABREEF , Sustainable Oban and GRAB Trust, for giving us a platform to voice and illustrate our concerns about plastic waste in general and plastic bags in particular.
We spoke to lots of pupils, teachers and members of the public and found that there are large numbers of people who want to see plastic bags banished from our lives.
A few visual impressions of the event:
Our stall with stark images and tactile examples of sound, sustainable, responsibly-sourced alternatives.
Oban Plastic Bag Free! co-initiator and campaigner, Astrid Horward, smiling at the interest by pupils and the general public.
In front of her, some examples of sensible, sustainable, 100% biodegradable and/or 100% compostable products.
Campaigner Astrid talking to a member of the public.
There really is no excuse for oil-based plastic bags. Look at these examples of traditional alternatives from local producers:
Fiona MacDougall's baskets: a blue and white basket gives new lease of life to plastic bags; it sits atop a traditional crab creel.
Pip Weaser in action and almost eclipsed by samples of fellow basket weavers' work (members of the Scottish Basketmakers' Circle).
Finally, Annabel Gregory's hand-knitted and hand-crocheted bags made from sustainably sourced jute (natural dyes).
Our presence at the ABREEF Fair was a success. Most of the people we spoke to were in favour of a ban on plastic bags.
We spoke to lots of pupils, teachers and members of the public and found that there are large numbers of people who want to see plastic bags banished from our lives.
A few visual impressions of the event:
Our stall with stark images and tactile examples of sound, sustainable, responsibly-sourced alternatives.
Oban Plastic Bag Free! co-initiator and campaigner, Astrid Horward, smiling at the interest by pupils and the general public.In front of her, some examples of sensible, sustainable, 100% biodegradable and/or 100% compostable products.
Campaigner Astrid talking to a member of the public.
Fiona MacDougall's baskets: a blue and white basket gives new lease of life to plastic bags; it sits atop a traditional crab creel.
Pip Weaser in action and almost eclipsed by samples of fellow basket weavers' work (members of the Scottish Basketmakers' Circle).
Finally, Annabel Gregory's hand-knitted and hand-crocheted bags made from sustainably sourced jute (natural dyes).Our presence at the ABREEF Fair was a success. Most of the people we spoke to were in favour of a ban on plastic bags.
When they were shown the alternatives, lots of people asked, "But why, if such great alternatives are on the market, don't supermarkets provide them to us?!"
Our response was that there has not been the pressure from above or below, and the alternatives are costlier. Would people be prepared to pay for alternatives? The majority response was, yes. And a lot of people already take their own bags to do their shopping.
So let's keep the pressure up! Thank you for collecting lots of signatures to petition the Scottish government to Ban Plastic Bags.
Our response was that there has not been the pressure from above or below, and the alternatives are costlier. Would people be prepared to pay for alternatives? The majority response was, yes. And a lot of people already take their own bags to do their shopping.
So let's keep the pressure up! Thank you for collecting lots of signatures to petition the Scottish government to Ban Plastic Bags.
Thursday, 25 September 2008
Oban Plastic Bag Free -- Our Petition
Today, we would like to share with you the wording of the petition we've begun circulating among people and shops in Oban. May this text inspire you all to take up the cause. For an e-copy, please leave a comment with contact details (comment will be published without contact details, unless otherwise specified).
Petition to Ban Plastic Carrier Bags in Scotland
© Astrid Horward, Eco-Promotion
“We the undersigned petition the Scottish Government to ban plastic carrier bags in Scotland and take serious action against plastic packaging in general.”
The Petitioners
Oban Plastic Bag Free! is a group of residents from Oban who are dedicated to providing retailers and consumers with information, education and counsel about plastic carrier bags and packaging and the devastation it causes to the environment.
Introduction
Plastic carrier bags and plastic packaging have a devastating effect on our natural environment. As petroleum based plastic does not bio-degrade, it remains a pollutant in our soils and water for ever.
Plastic is a danger to our wildlife, especially to our marine wildlife. Birds, sea turtles, seal lions, seals, dolphins and other animals become entangled in it or mistake it for food. Once it has degraded into minute plastic particles, it mimics zoo plankton and is easily ingested by fish and birds. In the central pacific gire, research has shown that there is six times more plastic by weight in this area than naturally ocurring plankton.
Plastic is a way to transport Persistant Organic Pollutors (chlordane, PCB, DDT, and DDE to name a few). They attach to the surface area of plastic in the marine environment. We need to establish whether, upon ingestion, these plastics transfer chemicals to the food chain and thus accumulate in fatty tissues and organs. As humans are at the top of the marine food chain, this could be a major cause for concern.
Plasticizers are a group of chemicals that are added to plastic resins during the manufacturing process.It has been established that traces of these chemicals leach out when they come into contact with food or drink. It has also been established that some of these plasticizers are now known to be carcinogenic and endocrine disruptors.
Plastic is made out of oil, a finite and therefore very valuable resource. Plastic production uses 8% of all the world's oil production. At the current rate the world produces 200 million tons of plastic a year. Less than 3.5% is recycled.
Several countries have taken or are taking serious action against plastic carrier bags and packaging. Bangladesh, Ireland, Taiwan, France, West Bengal, Tanzania, Switzerland, Rwanda, Pakistan, Denmark, Germany, South Africa, Italy, Australia, India, Somalia, Botswana, Philippines, Uganda, Kenya, Japan, Turkey, Zanzibar, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Belgium, South Korea, Singapore, Sweden, Bhutan, Malta, China…
We feel the Scottish government needs to follow their inspired and courageous example.
We therefore strongly appeal to the Scottish government to take prompt action and:
- ban plastic as a material for disposable products.
- encourage and reward businesses who ban free disposable plastic carrier bags and packaging.
- provide/create facilities where all plastic can be fully recyled.
- inform the public of the dangers of disposable plastic products.
Sources:
Modbury, South Devon – Great Britain's First Plastic Bag Free Town; Waste Online; Mindfully.org; Algalita Marine Research Foundation; Greenpeace Ocean Defenders; London: the Mayor of London, the London Assembly and the Greater London Authority; City of Newport, South Wales, UK; New Scientist; US Environmental Protection Agency; Ecologycenter Berkeley, CA, USA; Environmental Research Foundation; UNEP – United Nations Environment Program; Australian Government, Department of the Environment, Water, ...; IISD – International Institute for Sustainable Development; American Chemical Society; and many more.
Petition to Ban Plastic Carrier Bags in Scotland
© Astrid Horward, Eco-Promotion
“We the undersigned petition the Scottish Government to ban plastic carrier bags in Scotland and take serious action against plastic packaging in general.”
The Petitioners
Oban Plastic Bag Free! is a group of residents from Oban who are dedicated to providing retailers and consumers with information, education and counsel about plastic carrier bags and packaging and the devastation it causes to the environment.
Introduction
Plastic carrier bags and plastic packaging have a devastating effect on our natural environment. As petroleum based plastic does not bio-degrade, it remains a pollutant in our soils and water for ever.
Plastic is a danger to our wildlife, especially to our marine wildlife. Birds, sea turtles, seal lions, seals, dolphins and other animals become entangled in it or mistake it for food. Once it has degraded into minute plastic particles, it mimics zoo plankton and is easily ingested by fish and birds. In the central pacific gire, research has shown that there is six times more plastic by weight in this area than naturally ocurring plankton.
Plastic is a way to transport Persistant Organic Pollutors (chlordane, PCB, DDT, and DDE to name a few). They attach to the surface area of plastic in the marine environment. We need to establish whether, upon ingestion, these plastics transfer chemicals to the food chain and thus accumulate in fatty tissues and organs. As humans are at the top of the marine food chain, this could be a major cause for concern.
Plasticizers are a group of chemicals that are added to plastic resins during the manufacturing process.It has been established that traces of these chemicals leach out when they come into contact with food or drink. It has also been established that some of these plasticizers are now known to be carcinogenic and endocrine disruptors.
Plastic is made out of oil, a finite and therefore very valuable resource. Plastic production uses 8% of all the world's oil production. At the current rate the world produces 200 million tons of plastic a year. Less than 3.5% is recycled.
Several countries have taken or are taking serious action against plastic carrier bags and packaging. Bangladesh, Ireland, Taiwan, France, West Bengal, Tanzania, Switzerland, Rwanda, Pakistan, Denmark, Germany, South Africa, Italy, Australia, India, Somalia, Botswana, Philippines, Uganda, Kenya, Japan, Turkey, Zanzibar, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Belgium, South Korea, Singapore, Sweden, Bhutan, Malta, China…
We feel the Scottish government needs to follow their inspired and courageous example.
We therefore strongly appeal to the Scottish government to take prompt action and:
- ban plastic as a material for disposable products.
- encourage and reward businesses who ban free disposable plastic carrier bags and packaging.
- provide/create facilities where all plastic can be fully recyled.
- inform the public of the dangers of disposable plastic products.
Sources:
Modbury, South Devon – Great Britain's First Plastic Bag Free Town; Waste Online; Mindfully.org; Algalita Marine Research Foundation; Greenpeace Ocean Defenders; London: the Mayor of London, the London Assembly and the Greater London Authority; City of Newport, South Wales, UK; New Scientist; US Environmental Protection Agency; Ecologycenter Berkeley, CA, USA; Environmental Research Foundation; UNEP – United Nations Environment Program; Australian Government, Department of the Environment, Water, ...; IISD – International Institute for Sustainable Development; American Chemical Society; and many more.
Thursday, 18 September 2008
Plastic Bag Free -- Resources, Information
Some 'hard' information concerning the negative impact of plastic bags and plastic waste.
We wish to emphasise the fact that we follow in Modbury's excellent footsteps and use free available research and information on the devastation caused by plastic worldwide.
All the suppliers we recommend to our shops have an excellent environmental performance and come highly recommended by the founder of Modbury's Plastic Bag Free campaign, Rebecca Hosking.
As for the hotly debated "bio-plastic" (PLA7), the London Bio Packaging Website explains that bio-plastic is NOT a plastic but made from 100% biodegradable starches. PLA7 has the properties of plastic and is therefore classified among plastics:
"Bio-plastic is fully recyclable. It is registered as a number 7 recyclable plastic. In fact, where a PET product can only be made out of 25% recycled material bio-plastic can be made out of 100% recycled material.
"Will PLA contaminate the recycling stream? No, as long as bio-plastics make up less than 1% of all plastics they won’t affect the quality of recycled products. In addition, roughly 10% of recycling centres in the UK have machines that can sort bio-plastic from PET and HDPE. With increasing environmental pressures more are expected to follow. The more PLA is used the more recycling centres will want to install the correct sorting facilities. An upwards spiral has started."
(from http://www.londonbiopackaging.com/disposal?page=0%2C1, accessed on Sept 19, 2008)
For more on the devastation caused by plastic, see the following striking documentaries:
• Synthetic Seas
and
• Hawai'i - message in the waves
Documentary from BBC Natural History Unit
50 minutes
Trailer (from here to ***, as found on http://www.messageinthewaves.com/):
[It] is a film from the BBC Natural History Unit looking at some of the environmental challenges facing the people and wildlife of the Hawaiian Islands.
Although the documentary is from a Hawaiian perspective it is really a global film. Because of their size, location and social history, the Hawaiian Islands represent a microcosm of the planet and are in a unique position to tell all of us where we are going wrong and what we can do to help put things right.
There are many messages in the waves but the one we learned in Hawai'i that we feel requires immediate attention is that of global plastic pollution. We have put this website together to provide some more information about the problem and how you as an individual can directly help!!! Please look at our action and links page for helpful tips. Take inspiration from towns in the UK that are now going plastic bag free due to watching this documentary. You see you can make a direct difference.!!
'Kuleana' - privilege AND responsibility. Although we made the film, this is an unofficial web companion and does not reflect the views of the BBC.
***
The BBC site also has a torrent download link.
We wish to emphasise the fact that we follow in Modbury's excellent footsteps and use free available research and information on the devastation caused by plastic worldwide.
All the suppliers we recommend to our shops have an excellent environmental performance and come highly recommended by the founder of Modbury's Plastic Bag Free campaign, Rebecca Hosking.
As for the hotly debated "bio-plastic" (PLA7), the London Bio Packaging Website explains that bio-plastic is NOT a plastic but made from 100% biodegradable starches. PLA7 has the properties of plastic and is therefore classified among plastics:
"Bio-plastic is fully recyclable. It is registered as a number 7 recyclable plastic. In fact, where a PET product can only be made out of 25% recycled material bio-plastic can be made out of 100% recycled material.
"Will PLA contaminate the recycling stream? No, as long as bio-plastics make up less than 1% of all plastics they won’t affect the quality of recycled products. In addition, roughly 10% of recycling centres in the UK have machines that can sort bio-plastic from PET and HDPE. With increasing environmental pressures more are expected to follow. The more PLA is used the more recycling centres will want to install the correct sorting facilities. An upwards spiral has started."
(from http://www.londonbiopackaging.com/disposal?page=0%2C1, accessed on Sept 19, 2008)
For more on the devastation caused by plastic, see the following striking documentaries:
• Synthetic Seas
and
• Hawai'i - message in the waves
Documentary from BBC Natural History Unit
50 minutes
Trailer (from here to ***, as found on http://www.messageinthewaves.com/):
[It] is a film from the BBC Natural History Unit looking at some of the environmental challenges facing the people and wildlife of the Hawaiian Islands.
Although the documentary is from a Hawaiian perspective it is really a global film. Because of their size, location and social history, the Hawaiian Islands represent a microcosm of the planet and are in a unique position to tell all of us where we are going wrong and what we can do to help put things right.
There are many messages in the waves but the one we learned in Hawai'i that we feel requires immediate attention is that of global plastic pollution. We have put this website together to provide some more information about the problem and how you as an individual can directly help!!! Please look at our action and links page for helpful tips. Take inspiration from towns in the UK that are now going plastic bag free due to watching this documentary. You see you can make a direct difference.!!
'Kuleana' - privilege AND responsibility. Although we made the film, this is an unofficial web companion and does not reflect the views of the BBC.
***
The BBC site also has a torrent download link.
Monday, 15 September 2008
Oban Plastic Bag Free shops
© Photos: MPJ, Sept. 2008This a list of Oban shops and businesses who already sell their own reusable bags,
and/or have pledged to do so, and/or hand out only paper bags (in alphabetical order):
• Albany newsagent and convenience store (01631 564635) -- have stopped handing out plastic bags and provide organic cotton reusable bags for a modest amount of money.
• Bolliwood (walnut carvings, furniture & Pashmina suppliers) -- do not provide plastic bags; owner changed to paper bags after a conversation with the local street cleaner who showed her what plastic rubbish can do.
• Boots (chemists) -- have reusable cotton bag, proceeds go to a charity.
• Cancer Research Oban (01631 563 296): only hand out plastic bags they have received themselves and have reportedly never bought any plastic bags for the shop
• Coop Oban (supermarket; The Co-operative Food, Oban) -- the first supermarket to sell a reusable bag made of organic cotton; sadly, they also give away free "disposable" plastic bags.
• Homebase Oban -- provide brown paper bags.
• Island Design -- owner provides paper bags only and offers recycled plastic bags to customers who request a plastic bag.
• Kitchen Garden (delicatessen & café -- have an impressive display illustrating the nefarious effects of plastic on the environment -- well worth a visit! They were the first shop in Oban to pledge to a plastic bag free shopping experience.
Taken from their website: “The Kitchen Garden has decided that it can no longer be party to the huge proliferation of plastic that is inflicting so much damage to all life forms, especially those in the marine environment. Therefore, once our current supply runs out (estimated to be November 2008) we will no longer be issuing plastic bags to our customers. This alone will see 50,000 fewer plastic bags a year in circulation in Oban and beyond. It is our intention to replace all our plastic products, not just the bags with environmentally friendly, renewable alternatives over the next 12 months.”
Click on the photo for an enlarged view. You will then be able to read the caption: "To give an example of how long plastic lasts in the ocean. In 2001 a piece of plastic found in an albatross stomach bore a serial number that was traced to a World War II seaplane shot down in 1944 (US Fish & Wildlife)"Have pledged to change to biodegradable plastic over the next few months, including packaging (see their website).
© Photograph: MPJ
• Oxfam Oban (01631 566465) -- have a non-plastic bag policy (but hand them out quite freely).
• Tesco's (supermarket with a credit point system for regular customers who bring their own bags, a good idea -- sadly, they also have tons of thin plastic bags on the checkout counters).
• Waterstone's (bookshop)
• Whitmore and Hamilton (gifts and jewellery etc. made in Scotland) -- still hand bags out on customer request but strongly support initiative and are interested in changing when bag stock is depleted.
• ...
and many more -- come back for updates to the list as more shops join up.
What do you people think out there? Should we list the shops that hand out plastic bags without asking and/or offer plastic bags rather than ask, "Do you need a bag?" ?
What do you people think out there? Should we list the shops that hand out plastic bags without asking and/or offer plastic bags rather than ask, "Do you need a bag?" ?
Saturday, 30 August 2008
Oban Plastic Bag Free! Initiative launched
A public-private initiative was launched on Friday, August 29, 2008, to make Oban plastic-bag free.The initiators were gratified to welcome to the launch meeting Ms Elaine Robertson (Councillor for Health), Ms Terry Donovan (organiser of the forthcoming ABREEF Environment Fair – http://www.argyllcommunities.org/ABREEF/) and Mr Bob McIllwraith (of ALIenergy – http://www.alienergy.org.uk/), some shop owners, as well as numerous members of the public.
The next photo shows the current committee members holding easily available reusable alternatives:
Margaret Powell (holding a wee woven basket from the Scottish Basketmakers' Circle, an organic cotton bag from Coop and an onya bag);GRAB Trust (http://www.grab.org.uk/) coordinator, Julie Fairbrass (holding a morsbag); and
Astrid Horward, Eco-Promotion, holding a basket from the Scottish Basketmakers' Circle and a 100% compostable, fully biodegradable bag from BioBags Scotland
(photograph © by Carlo Beuger)
Some sources of local and sustainable alternatives are (in no particular order):
• Pip Weaser of Kilmelford
artist and facilitator of the Scottish Basketmakers' Circle: http://www.scottishbasketmakerscircle.org; baskets grown and made in Argyll (baskets made by her group can be seen in the photo below, left)
• Annabel Gregory of Easdale Island
hand-made knitted and crocheted bags made from sustainably sourced jute (her bags in photo below, right)
Annabel holding one of her knitted jute bags
(© photograph: MPJ)
• "Smile In Argyll" (an Oban artist) = pod no. 90 of morsbags sociable guerilla bagging: http://www.morsbags.com
Annabel holding one of her knitted jute bags(© photograph: MPJ)
(Photograph © MPJ)fully biodegradable, compostable carrier bags and more: http://www.biobags.co.uk (the ones in top right corner in photo below)
(Photograph © MPJ)• ecomundi are the suppliers of the "Turtle Bag" (natural and coloured organic cotton string bags; see top right in photo below); also have lots of recyclable, biodegradable products: http://www.ecomundi.co.uk/eco/shop.php?cat=56
(Photograph © MPJ)• ecobags -- the name says it all (they have a great website, by the way, with loads more information)
http://www.ecobags.com
We will be more than happy to provide contact details for people who don't have websites. Just send in a comment. NOTE: All comments are monitored, no commentator's details will be published here.
Finally, a website that lists loads of shops and businesses that sell reusable and recycled products. Check it out for yourself: http://www.sort-it.org.uk
Biodegradable, sustainable, non-plastic alternatives:containers for big parties and the fast-food culture
(not that that is what I would particularly recommend) ...
(Photograph © MPJ)
We look forward to hearing from you!
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