WWW.NOPLASTICBAGS.ORG.NZ

No Plastic Bags

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