No Plastic Bags
WWW.NOPLASTICBAGS.ORG.NZ

So what’s the problem
 Our society is fundamentally broken
 Not enough people are trying to fix it

Our Principles
 Lots of people doing a little bit of work
 Collaborative and Inclusive
 Fun and Social

Why plastic bags?
 Harmful and Unnecessary
 Widespread and Visible
 Achievable
 Capacity Building

The US uses 60,000 bags every 5 seconds

Not so good for wildlife

A few facts
 New Zealand uses a billion plastic bags a year
 Plastic bags are the second most common marine
debris found on beaches.
 1/3 of all leather back turtle necropsies since 1968
found ingested plastic bags

What we do - Stalls

Petitions

Craft Days

Postcards

Exciting times
Warehouse to start charging for plastic bags

Go Bob Harvey!

National day of action
 Late April 2009
 Stickers, petitions and surveys
 Direct pressure on big retailers to charge for bags
and give the profits away
 Call for government (local & national) to pass ‘no
free plastic bags’ legislation

Get Involved
 Facebook – search ‘no plastic bags in new zealand’
 www.noplasticbags.org.nz

A mountain climbers approach
“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves”
-Sir Edmund Hilary
 Keep the end goal in site
 Break the project into manageable chunks
 Knock the bastard off