If you’ve ever gone shopping without your cloth bag, a group in Lunenburg can help you out.
Boomerang Bags acts as a sort of library.
Bags can be picked up and used from one store and returned at another.
The bags are sewn by volunteers from donated material.
Co-founder of Boomerang Bags Jennifer Constable can’t see why people shouldn’t make the switch to cloth.
“The reality is if everybody made the choice we could have no plastic bags. For many, many thousands of years we didn’t have single-use plastic bags. They only really started to be used in the seventies.”
Co-founder Teresa Quilty says they often get asked about people stealing the bags.
“If you take a bag and you start using it and it’s the thing that keeps you from going and getting plastic, then great, keep using it. This is intended to be that gap between your good intentions and your forgetfulness.”
Quilty says they are in seven stores in Lunenburg now and hope to expand.
She says they are always looking for volunteers to help make bags.
The next sewing session will be at the Makery in Lunenburg on September 27.
For more details you can visit their website.
