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Use Your Creativity to Educate Others and Address SUP Bags
Use Your Creativity to Educate Others and Address SUP Bags
Learn Why Single-Use Plastic Bags Are a Problem.
Learn Why Single-Use Plastic Bags Are a Problem.
Step 1. Review the short Rethink Plastic brief prepared by the NH Network Plastics Work Group to learn about the problem with plastics. Check out 2 or 3 items in the section under Resources in the Ten Towns • Ten Actions Toolkit: Articles, Research Briefs, Fact Sheets.
Go to our Say No to Plastic Bags! webpage on the Ten Towns Toolkit website, but come back here when you're done reading.
Step 2. Go to our Creativitn and Craftivism page to learn more about Craftivism.
Watch the TEDx Talk about Boomerang Bags and visit the Boomerang Bags website.
Scroll below to see Mesh Bag Mamas resources.
Use Your Creativity
Use Your Creativity
Step 3. Now it's time to think of creative ways to tackle the problem of single-use plastic bags.
How could you help sew reusable bags?
Join With and Inspire Others.
Join With and Inspire Others.
Step 4. You can use your creativity and craftivism to have a larger impact. Can you think of ways to work with others to create something that sheds light on the problem with plastic bags? Host an event, small or large.
Join with others in New Hampshire
Check out the NH the Mesh Bag Mama's Project, where sewers and others have a goal to eliminate plastic produce bags — first from the Lebanon Co-op and other related stores — and next statewide in NH.
Share Your Enthusiasm
Share Your Enthusiasm
Step 5. Contact your local paper to see if they might cover your efforts or event. Take photos of your creativity and craftivism to use as accompaniment to any writing you do for a local town newsletter or other publication.
Resources and All About Mesh Bag Mamas
Resources and All About Mesh Bag Mamas
Mesh Bag Mamas and Link to Summary on the Beyond Plastics Website
Mesh Bag Mamas 2.0 - Article by Cindy Heath in the Queechee Times
Ten Towns • Ten Actions Leader Resource: Cindy Heath
Bag Insert for Mesh Bag Mamas Project
Bag Insert for Mesh Bag Mamas Project
This graphic shows the front of the card included in each mesh bag. The card helps educate shoppers so they will rethink plastic and thus keep plastic film out of the environment.
This effort — in addition to focusing on individual behavior — is designed to create systemic change at grocery stores. Seeing shoppers using safe, practical, organic cotton produce bags will encourage stores to stop offering plastic shopping and produce bags. The stores will save money while improving community and global health!
Model Bag-Share Programs. Consider starting a bag share program with a local retailer, laundry service, co-op.
Model Bag-Share Programs. Consider starting a bag share program with a local retailer, laundry service, co-op.
Mountain Equipment Coop (Canada)
Online bag tutorial & step by step bag share program instructions
MorsBags (award-winning NP in the UK)
Article - The Rise of Reusable Bag Share Programs
Adams, MA Bag Share Program (made bags for every resident)
Beyond the Bag Consortium Pilot Program
Closed Loop Partners article about Beyond the Bag pilot in 150 Denver stores
Beyond the Bag graphics, signs templates
Mesh Bag Mamas © 2023
Theme Song by
Mary K. Armstrong
Craftivists from the Upper Valley and Monadnock regions, Cornish Quilters, and St. Paul’s Church sewed, sang, and delivered 1,000 handmade, reusable, 100% organic cotton, mesh produce bags to the Lebanon Co-op Food Store in October 2023, along with an eye-catching educational display.
With support from Sustainable Lebanon, Cornish Community Initiative, Community Action Works, and Co-op Food Stores, the project gives customers the choice of using a hand-made reusable produce bag instead of single-use plastic bags.
Mesh Bag Mamas Launch!
Mesh Bag Mamas Launch!
On Saturday October 21, 2023 from noon to 2:00 PM, Mesh Bag Mamas handed out a lot of bags at the Lebanon Co-op! The Co-op staff let us load up the demo counter across from the service desk with more bags for customers to take after we finished at 2 pm.
Customers were very appreciative, and some shoppers with large families in tow received several bags. Bags were distributed both at the entrance to the store and in the produce section. Thanks to Mike, Sandy & the Service Desk staff for the great support.
Three sets of bags were hung on display racks in the produce section as well — it will be interesting to see how long it takes for them to disappear!
We’ll be working with Mike from the Co-op Marketing Department to set a date for further distribution at the other Co-op stores. 50 bags were dropped off at the Upper Valley Food Co-op in White River Junction.
The Mesh Bag Mamas Theme Song Choir was in full performance mode, singing at the entrance and in the produce department to light applause by customers. The tallest singer in the video (link below) is Mary Armstrong from Harrisville, the song’s composer who traveled up from the Monadnock region.
Special thanks to the singers for putting it out there — Nancy Wightman, Colleen O’Niell, Phil and Judith Bush, and Katy Chaffee. And a shout out to Jan Kilfeather-Mackey and Patsy Beffa-Negrini — set up mavens and bag distributors extraordinaire.
Check out this link of the premier performance of the Mesh Bag Mama theme song! (It IS a catchy tune!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ37ssyqq64
All in all a fabulous effort, and so much gratitude to the Mesh Bag Mamas who joined us and to everyone who participated to get us to 847 bags! They looked great and we received a lot of compliments.
Kind regards,
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