Salisbury Plastic Bag Free City – meeting on 13 January
The next meeting of SCRAP Salisbury City Residents’ Action on Packaging is:
St. Francis Church Hall, The Neve Room
Tuesday 13 January 2009, 7.30pm
Help to make Salisbury the first Plastic Bag Free City!
A letter from SCRAP: Salisbury City Residents against Packaging:
Dear supporter,
Please copy this to anyone who may be interested.
The next meeting of SCRAP Salisbury City Residents’ Action on Packaging is Tuesday 13th January 2009 7.30pm at St.Francis Church Hall, The Neve Room. We hope to see you there, and as many friends as you can bring along.
Interesting things have been happening since the official launch on Nov 22nd. Grants are being pursued, and the results of a questionnaire survey will be available by the meeting.
Firstly, a happy and healthy New Year to you all.
As a community based campaign, it’s your ideas that count. Come and hear what people have suggested. Please bring your ideas to the meeting, and tell us what you’d like to see happen, and what you can offer.
Where to distribute the re-usable cotton shopping bags that remain from the 1000 donated by Co-Op?
How to encourage shops to use fewer plastic bags?
How to identify which shops are becoming Plastic Bag Free?
Would a newsletter be a good idea?
Tony Langham, on behalf of SCRAP. www.banplasticbags.org.uk
SCRAP have given out 1000 cotton shopping bags-we’ve been given £1000 by UnLtd of which
£550 has been spent on organic cotton bags and we’ve been given 1000 cotton shopping bags by the Coop.
There are a dozen PBF shops and waitrose now hide them under the counter. We will be having a PBF Day along with many other villages,towns and cities across the UK. SCRAP has launched a ‘Plastic bag awareness for schools ‘, they’ll be burying 2 plastic bags-one compostable / biodegradable & one not. they’ll make a series of reports on findings. Finally, we are very pleased to welcome the Bishop of Salisbury as our patron.