2 May 2008 - The Berkley Bag

As part of our Eco Schools work we have been developing ‘The Berkley Bag’. We rose to the challenge to become a ‘plastic bag free school’. The children worked on designs for the bag and then the whole school was given the chance to vote for their preferred design. This was then sent off to be made up into the Fairtrade bag. We are delighted with the result. Every member of the school community and the local Berkley community have received [ or will be receiving] one of these bags. Currently each person in the UK uses an average of 216 plastic bags a year, if we use our Berkley Bags then collectively as a school we will remove 19,656 bags from circulation every year. And if the whole family does this we could remove around 72,800 bags a year from circulation. WOW! Quite something to be proud of we think!