Bags of News

Congratulations Fish & Chip shop of the year- Seniors

Congratulations to to Seniors- fish and chip shop of the year 2012, and to Hanbury's, the runner's up. Well Done to all the category winners.

Pressure on EU to ban plastic bags

A huge response to the consultation to ban plastic bags is in favour of a ban.

Public ‘strongly agree’ with EU-bag ban plans

The European Commission has published the responses it received on its plastic bag consultation and more than 50% of the respondents strongly agree that an EU-ban on plastic carrier bags is neede

Seattle bans plastic bags

Interesting story of plastic bag free progress from rejection of a tax in 2008 to approving a ban in 2012 http://t.co/4DDodCzg

Make 2012 Olympics plastic bag free

Support the Greener Upon Thames campaign to make theOlympics plastic bag free.

Sign the petition

Plastic Bag Free Towns- where are they now?

What's happened to the plastic bag free towns?

Many websites have no updates at all in 2011.

In tough times is it too difficult to be thinking of the environment too?

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Happy New Year to all our friends, old and new, and looking forward to meeting lots more of you in 2012.

New Year - ditch the plastic and move to recyclable bags

Make 2012  the year you give up on single use plastic bags and make a determined effort to re-use your bags.

A Bag for Life not just for Christmas

Remember to take bags with you when Christmas shopping. We are getting quite good at taking reusable bags to the supermarket but the rest of the High Street is way behind.

Christmas Bags rare find

Have found a few of our famous extra large Christmas bags.