Get Involved
When you're trying to convince others to choose reusable bags instead of paper or plastic, it helps to know the facts.
How many bags do we really use? How long does it take plastic to degrade? What are the environmental effects of producing plastic bags? Is recycling the answer?
If you want to create an informational display, Roots & Shoots Group Leader Anne Goldfeld has created a Paper vs. Plastic Brochure/Poster.
WORK FOR REUSABLE BAG-FRIENDLY POLICY
 | Lobby Your Legislators
If you believe laws like a tax or ban on plastic bags are important, let your voices be heard! Write a letter, make a call or send an email, and ask others to do the same. Visit your legislators in person and bring him or her the "pledge to pack" forms you have collected or a R&S reusable bag! |
 | Bag Credits
Ask your local stores to offer bag rebates of five or 10 cents for each reusable bag packed or to start charging an extra fee for disposable bags. Check out this sample letter to retailers on the reusablebags.com site. You can use it as is or to help you format your own request.
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Write a Thank You Letter to the President of Tanzania for His Plastic Bag Policy
In April 2006, the new President of Tanzania announced that in six months it will be illegal to sell or distribute plastic bags throughout the country! Let's send letters of thanks to President Kikwete for his environmentally responsible actions.
Read a news article about the bag ban.
Let's send letters of thanks to President Kikwete for his enviromentally responsible actions. Click here for more information and a sample letter.
| Reusablebags.com | Printer-friendly informational handouts. | | Wikipedia.org | Information about degradable plastic bags and legislation against plastic bags around the world. | | Planetark.com | Downloadable posters, fact sheets and reports. Many are specific to efforts in Australia, but are good templates for work in your own community. | "The Hidden Costs
of Grocery Bags"
by Lisa Lucio Gough | Follow the trail of plastic and paper grocery bags from cradle to grave. |
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know about
our campaign! Roots & Shoots group leader Stephany Hoffelt has created a button you can place on your group's website or blog that links your viewers to this page. Just copy the following HTML code into the code for your website. This code can be placed on most blogs, too. <a href="http://www.
rootsandshoots.org/
youth-network/
reusablebag.asp
"><img border="
0" height="220" src=
"http://www.naturally
simple.org/
bag.jpg" width="141"
/></a> | |  | |
