ROMSEY RETAILERS ARE SUPPORTING A PLASTIC BAG FREE DAY ON SATURDAY 28TH FEBRUARY. SEE WHAT OTHER TOWNS SUCH AS NORWICH HAVE DONE.

• Better Bags for Romsey is a group of people in Romsey concerned by the ecological damage caused by plastic bags in the environment. It was originally set up in the summer of 2007 by one of the group who was inspired by the success of Modbury in Devon in becoming plastic bag free.
  It is known that plastic bags take many hundreds of years to decompose, causing marine life casualties, flooding problems, and widespread littering.
  Our aim was to try and raise enough money to provide free Fair Trade organic cotton bags and supporting information to junior school children, the elderly and other community groups. The bags we have chosen are made in a village in Southern India devastated by the 2004 Tsunami. We hope to promote the sale of these bags in local shops.

http://www.vandanamu.co.uk/

Also, by increasing the visibility of this problem through handouts and other publicity, we want to encourage the people and retailers of the town to find out more and opt in to saying “NO” to plastic bags, a symbol of our throwaway society.

Created by Jack Spargo - 2008
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