SCRAP is a new organisation affiliated to South Wiltshire Agenda 21 dedicated to ridding Salisbury of unwanted plastic bags and packaging. This is being done in a number of other towns and cities across the country.

A meeting has been arranged to discuss the strategy and aims for the group:

St Francis’ Church Hall
Thursday 18 September, from 7 to 8 pm

Download SCRAP flyer

SCRAP (Salisbury City Residents Action on Packaging) is a group of City residents who wish to get rid of unsustainable packaging in Salisbury. Its first objective is to eliminate the use of single-use plastic bags in the City, and an initial action is to supply each household in the City with a shopping bag made from sustainable materials. Although SCRAP has been established with the active involvement of two ward Councillors, it is a non-political group, and it already has support from all local political parties, Local Agenda 21 and the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust. We wish to broaden our support to include local businesses and other interested parties.

We have made considerable progress with SCRAP. Grants for start-up costs and the provision of bags have been applied for, and prospects look good. A further application for funding from the District Council’s General Community Fund is in progress. Assuming all our bids are successful we will have sufficient funding to meet our first objective – the provision of a sustainable shopping bag for each household in the City. Our website is virtually complete and will soon go live for Beta testing – the last stage before it is formally launched. A draft constitution has been completed, an outline strategy for achieving the first objective has been developed, and plans for a high profile public launch are well advanced.

The committee now believe that we should place our strategy and initial action plan before our supporters, and seek their comments, suggestions and agreement to the initial way ahead. We have therefore arranged a meeting at St Francis’ Church Hall on Thursday 18 September, from 7 until 8 p.m. and we would very much like you to attend.

If you know of anyone else who might be interested in becoming a supporter (no financial commitment!) could you let them know about the meeting (and pass on the flyer); we would welcome anyone who can make an input to his initiative.