Cotton Bags
If you have found your way to this website through the purchase of a ‘Don’t F**k my Planet’ cotton bag, thank you.
Sparrows Need Hedges and Ragged Rainbow are sponsors of these bags, hoping to change the Law in the UK on the unrestricted and disastrous policy of our major retailers on giving away plastic bags to carry away our goods. We hope the bag serves you well for countless shopping trips. It shows you care for your planet, refusing to treat the plastic bag as a never-ending source of convenience. Maybe like us, you’ve watched in disbelief - as you’ve queued in the supermarket - people taking bag after bag and wonder why they never bring back the ones they took at a previous visit! Are these people really that uncaring for their environment? Sadly yes.
Most of the plastic bags we use in Europe are made in China. Their populations endure and suffer the pollution in the bags manufacture, while our European supermarkets exploit China’s cheap labour and prices to enable them to give millions away each year to thoughtless shoppers who feel they have a right to take as many as they need, despite the cost to the planet. Feel proud that you have made a choice to be different.
Samples of these bags are being sent out to influential politicians, eminent conservationists, caring journalists and well-known environmentalists.
Plastic bags don’t go away easily, most will outlive you! They can blow for miles in the wind. Sea mammals often eat them, especially sea turtles who mistake them for jellyfish. If buried, plastic bags decompose very slowly, and release toxins into the soil. Because so many people use supermarket plastic bags for bagging up their rubbish, if incinerated, the plastic constitute a large proportion of the toxins that are released in the smoke and is hopefully removed, but incineration also produces tonnes of toxic ash that is again buried in the soil; creating a toxic time-bomb for generations.
If you’ve ever taken a photograph of a country scene only to have it spoilt by plastic bags tangled in the trees and hedgerows, you’ll know how infuriating this is. Friends of ours, told us how even in the Amazon rainforest, villages were surrounded by plastic bags. Travellers also tell of plastic bags blowing across the desert regions of the world, while hundreds pollute our own beaches and countryside everyday.
We posses a cotton bag from Tesco’s from the 70’s and a cotton bag from Sainsbury’s from the 80’s. They have done it before, they should do it again. Are the big supermarkets really happy to have their plastic bags - with their name on it - used for rubbish, picking up dog shit, and causing pollution for generations to come. They could so easily take the lead where our Governments have failed to go. New Laws in Ireland changed the way their people used plastic bags. These bags should be taxed out of existence in the UK.
If Dinosaur shoppers what a ‘free’ plastic bag, make them pay for their stupidity, and lack of forethought! When you go shopping, don’t you always make sure you have money or a card to pay for it? Then why don’t millions of people make sure they take some bags with them to carry their shopping home?
Like Green ex GLA Member, Noel Lynch, who is still campaigning on this issue, we intend to keep lobbying the Government to confront the Plastic Bag problem.
Please do what you can to halt this crazy polluting situation. Once again, thank you.
If you require further bags, You can contact us through the websites, or go to:
The bags are £4-00 each, including postage and packing.
Miranda Dunn
Ragged Rainbow Quilts
Tel: 020 8371 9744