NOOSA Council staff members have something new in their tea rooms – Boomerang Bags.
Boomerang Bags are re-useable bags made from recycled cloth and sewn by local volunteers who are busily producing thousands of the bags to provide to local residents for free.
Council staff have been urged to ditch the plastic bag and bring their own re-useable bags from home, or use a Boomerang Bag when they need one.
Staff member Cliona said Boomerang Bags were a way for residents to help reduce the stream of plastic bags headed for landfill.
“After being disgusted at plastic bag disposal around the world, and then being shocked to see how quickly our own landfill is filling up with plastic bags, I spent a fortune buying the $2 re-useable supermarket bags because I kept forgetting to bring my own bags to the shops,” she said.
“Now I just need to remember to take a Boomerang Bag with me when I leave the office at lunch time so that I don’t buy another bag I don’t need.”
Staff member Cherie agreed with colleague Cliona saying she had taken steps to ditch plastic bags.
“I have completely ditched using plastic bags as part of my new year’s resolutions,” she said.
“To make sure that I stick with my plastic bag ban, I buy an environmental bag at the supermarket or shops every time that I forget to bring them. This quickly made me form a habit of taking re-useable bags everywhere I go.”
Getting rid of plastic bags in the shire is written into the Noosa Council’s Towards Zero Waste program and the council is right behind the Boomerang Bag initiative.
To find out more about Boomerang Bags or volunteer to help sew a bag or donate some cloth, pop into Boomerang Bags’ headquarters in the Junction, at Shop 6/37 Sunshine Beach Road, or call Desire on 0427 596 478.
