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Emsworth - a
plastic bag free town? |
The committee of
the EBA on behalf of its members and other
business people in Emsworth, are encouraging the town to
become "plastic bag free". In other words
replacing plastic with bio degradable and
"bags for life" which are recyclable.
The EBA has
has financed the scheme to
encourage better use of scarce resources and
in a small but significant way to help the
environment-after all Emsworth because of
its unique and beautiful location is more
vulnerable than most to climate change.
If the scheme is
to work businesses will need the whole
hearted support of residents and visitors,
so to this end a re-useable bag has been
distributed to every household.
Brendan
Gibb-Gray.
[Chairman
Emsworth Business Association]
Free Re-usable Bag for Emsworth
Households
The Business Association have supplied a free
re-usable shopping bag to every Emsworth
Household with additional bags available to
purchase in local retail outlets at £1.00
each.
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Southern Co-ops go plastic bag free
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Three more Southern Co-operative stores are
to go plastic bag free from 31 March 2008.
The stores, at
Alresford, Emsworth and Odiham in Hampshire, will
completely replace traditional plastic bags with a GM-free
corn starch version at a cost of 5p to the customer.
This latest
initiative follows a successful trial at the society's store
at Overton in Hampshire, where the town went plastic bag
free in November 2007.
 Also
from the end of March, the corn starch bags will become
available in the rest of Southern Co-op's stores in
Hampshire, Wiltshire, Dorset, the Isle of Wight, West Sussex
and Berkshire.
Customers here
will then have the choice of purchasing a corn starch
carrier or a Co-op Fairtrade cotton 'bag for life' at 99p,
instead of using traditional plastic bags.
The corn starch
bags can be filled with household food waste and added to
domestic compost bins.
The area manager reported
that one of their stores in a small Hampshire town not
Emsworth] used 240,000 plastic bags last year!
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