YOUR PLASTIC FREE PARADE

Boomerang bags, have reached Claygate! All thanks to two local working mums, using fabric scraps and volunteers, Pippa Moody and Maxine Falconbridge have created shopping bags and are helping to reduce single-use plastic in our village of Claygate. It’s a huge community effort, volunteers make the bags to supply the shops which are given free to their customers to return or re-use. A small grant from Claygate Parish Council, means the duo have bought a Claygate Boomerang Bag stamp, as well as printed leaflets, instructions and tags. They have harnessed the enthusiastic eco drive of Elmbridge Borough Councillor, Mary Marshall, who further helped the pair engage with the already motivated local shopkeepers. Mary has also managed to source an excellent fabric supply in the process. These ladies still need more volunteers but you don't have to be able to sew! Needed are fabric donations, washing fabric, cutting out, ironing and making up kits. The bags are helping people to chat, make friends, up-cycle materials and shift our society’s poor throwaway mentality towards re-use. Please visit www.boomerangbags.org for more information. Find them on twitter @bagsclaygate and Instagram: claygate.boomerang.bags or contact Pippa Moody pippakmoody@hotmail.com