Bring Your Own Bag
The Bring Your Own Bag scheme aims to reduce plastic bag consumption in east london borough of Waltham Forest. The scheme hopes to raise awareness of the environmental damage that plastic bags cause.
Created 3 months ago by Tom B
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A group of local residents is setting up a plastic bag free zone in the borough. We are talking to local businesses about setting up a pilot scheme in Leytonstone.
The Bring Your Own Bag scheme aims to reduce plastic bag consumption in east london borough of Waltham Forest. The scheme hopes to raise awareness of the environmental damage that plastic bags cause.
Local shops and traders are being asked to replace traditional plastic carrier bags with reusable or biodegradable alternatives.
We use an average of around 300 plastic bags per person in the UK. We use them for an average of 12-20 minutes before disposing of them.
But it can take over 100 years for a plastic bag to degrade.
It is now thought that an average cloth bag in its lifetime will save the owner from using at least 1000 plastic bags.
Bring your own bag Website
Bring your own bag website: http://www.hovis21.com
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Created by Tom B, Last updated 3 months ago,
Plastic facts
Last year the town of Modbury in Devon became Britain's first plastic bag free town. Much of the information in this section is drawn from their great website.When you throw a plastic bag away it doesn't go anywhere. Left alone it will probably still be around by the time you're dead....
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Created by Tom B, Last updated 3 months ago,
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Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Read this short article. It's quite remarkable.
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/the-worlds-rubbish-dump-a-garbage-tip-that-stretches-from-hawaii-to-japan-778016.html
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