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Working towards a zero-waste Kingston - and world - one step at a time.
More and more people are carrying their own bags when they go shopping – why don’t you join them?
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OUR VISION isa zero-waste UK, where plastic bags and other throwaway plastics are a thing of the past, leading the way to a zero-waste world.
OUR MISSION is to work towards that one step at a time. The first steps would be a plastic-bag-free 2010 London Olympics - please sign the 2012 petition here - and a plastic-bag-free Kingston. The next step would be a UK government ban, or realistic levy on, plastic bags.
More about our Olympics campaign on Facebook here, about the wider "green Olympics" issues here, and more about Greener Upon Thames here. We hate waste of other kinds too!
OUR MISSION is to work towards that one step at a time. The first steps would be a plastic-bag-free 2010 London Olympics - please sign the 2012 petition here - and a plastic-bag-free Kingston. The next step would be a UK government ban, or realistic levy on, plastic bags.
More about our Olympics campaign on Facebook here, about the wider "green Olympics" issues here, and more about Greener Upon Thames here. We hate waste of other kinds too!
"Plastic bags are a small part of a much bigger problem - the litter we see around us and the long-term effects of our throwaway life-styles on the environment and wildlife,” says co-ordinator of the campaign, Marilyn Mason. “but giving them up is one of the easiest ways for both shops and shoppers to make a difference. We don't need so many of them, and bags lying on our roadsides or floating in the river are not good advertisements for the retailers that supply them. I hope that raising awareness about their impact will encourage shoppers to get into the habit of taking a bag with them and retailers to stop giving them out automatically."
"If we were all to minimise the use of plastic bags and bottles, to resist shopping in places where they were most used, and to favour retail outlets that offered alternatives, it would not only conserve energy, but also significantly enhance the appearance – and thus the aesthetic pleasure - of our local environment, where at present roads and rivers are littered with plastic waste." (Professor Kate Soper writing on "alternative hedonism")
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The wider environmental impact of bags - Plastic - where else do you think it goes? |
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HIGHLY COMMENDED GREEN CHAMPION, GREEN GUARDIAN AWARDS 2009.
Greener Kingston co-ordinator Marilyn Mason won a Highly Commended certificate and an apple tree at the Green Guardian awards ceremony at the Rose Theatre in January 2010. Photo here.
COMMENDED GREEN PROJECT, GREEN GUARDIAN AWARDS 2008
As Towards a Plastic-Bag-Free Kingston (our previous name), we were commended in the 2008 Green Guardian Awards, and we were awarded funds from UnLtd in 2008 to enable the printing of awareness-raising resources.
See our flier here and our till magnet here. Greener Kingston is a member of Kingston Council's Environment Group and Transition Town Kingston.
