Morsbags
I came across a great site over at Bowledover called Morsbags. It's a website that hopes to encourage the demise of plastic shopping bags and explains just how much damage they can do to our environment and ecology. Here is their artical:
Let’s do something positive to reduce the hideous number of plastic bags being used -1 million are consumed per minute globally - of which hundreds of thousands end up in the oceans.
The idea is to get together with people in your local community, drink wine and make reusable cloth bags (from old duvet covers, curtains from charity shops etc) and hand them out to the unsuspecting public for free on specified dates outside different supermarkets.
Meet new people, do something marvellous for the planet and beat other pods (groups) of baggers with your morsbag tally.
Go to www.morsbags.com to be a part of a wonderful thing!
P.S. non-commercial/ non-profitable - just full of beneficial things for everyone, especially whales!
The idea is to form groups of people or pods to combine social get togethers with a good cause. You can set up your own pod or join an existing one and there are many worldwide. Follow this link to view locations of existing pods.
The Morsbags website includes simple instructions for sewing your own bags. I have begun eyeing up prospective morsbag material around the house already. If you have a moment have a go, perhaps your local shop could distribute them to shoppers and help spread the word?
Let’s do something positive to reduce the hideous number of plastic bags being used -1 million are consumed per minute globally - of which hundreds of thousands end up in the oceans.
The idea is to get together with people in your local community, drink wine and make reusable cloth bags (from old duvet covers, curtains from charity shops etc) and hand them out to the unsuspecting public for free on specified dates outside different supermarkets.
Meet new people, do something marvellous for the planet and beat other pods (groups) of baggers with your morsbag tally.
Go to www.morsbags.com to be a part of a wonderful thing!
P.S. non-commercial/ non-profitable - just full of beneficial things for everyone, especially whales!
The idea is to form groups of people or pods to combine social get togethers with a good cause. You can set up your own pod or join an existing one and there are many worldwide. Follow this link to view locations of existing pods.
The Morsbags website includes simple instructions for sewing your own bags. I have begun eyeing up prospective morsbag material around the house already. If you have a moment have a go, perhaps your local shop could distribute them to shoppers and help spread the word?
I agree about the plastic bags. I hate them. But the ironic thing is that when they started being heavily used in supermarkets in the early 80s it was because the use of paper bags was considered bad for the environment due to how many trees were being cut down to produce them. I remember how progressive everyone felt back then for saying plastic when given the choice at the grocery. But it turns out that the plastic is no better. I have some canvas bags that I take to the local grocery, but sometimes I still purchase too much and need to use theirs. I save them though, re-use them a lot.
ReplyDeleteHello! I remember the change over and to some extent people still think wood derived products should be avoided although the lapse in timber usage in some countries lead to a decline in the forestry industry which was detrimental and resulted in less trees being planted. Now we are trying to undo it all! Thanks for visiting!
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