East Dulwich cloth bags

[shaman]

Thinkcloth bags are excellant idea for east dulwich other areas already have them, but we need to make sure we don't use sweatshop suppliers to save our landfills or fishy friends. Hemp bags would be good since it is a fast growing crop that is good for the enviroment and does'nt require lots of chemicals. However always leaving them at home think the council should help towards the cost.

[Susan]

Dear Monica,

I am very keen to get involved with this initiative and would be happy to meet to help with the application to the council and getting the scheme off the ground, please email me. Lordship Lane I feel has the right mix of shops and concerned locals to make this work. Every year, an estimated 17? billion plastic bags are given away by supermarkets. This is equivalent to over 290 bags for every person in the UK?we have to start somewhere...

[Recuerda]

I did exactly the same as snowboarder. Kept repeating the mantra that I was 'supporting my local community' whilst feeling a bit ripped off.....

snowboarder Wrote:

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> I bought one of those bags - i didn't realise how

> much it was till the last minute and then felt

> embarrassed so bought it anyway. Oops oh well

> must use it now. Or will I get laughed at like

> the not a plastic bag lady...?

[monica]

Cant seem to log on the council website,can anyone try with the info richard thomas provided and let me know if they managed to log on thanks

[Susan]

Dear Monica,

yes link that Richard provided works fine

www.southwark.gov.uk/cleanergreenersafer

I have downloaded a pdf of the application and can email to you?

[monica]

Please susan if you can,il pm you my email thanks

[Fuschia]

There were free cloth bags given out at the Green fair on Saturday, "Everybody's going to the park" ones with duck on, if you filled in the consultation about Goose Green Park. Produced by the council, I presume and very nice they are too!

[monica]

Its great to see the council are working hard in regards to recycling.I know cloth bags are not going to cure the problem but the fact is, everybody is really taking climate change seriously

[snowboarder]

Grr don't tell me about free bags when I was a complete fool and spent ?15 on a stupid cloth bag. Makes me feel an idiot and the bag is now ruined for me!

Think of all the cakes I could have bought with that ?15....

Cross with self! Am such a sucker!

(incidentally - anyone else got any low value high cost goods they want to peddle? I'm your ideal customer as long as it looks good...)

[monica]

Spoke to a lady who can help provide info on copperatives who make cloth bag,or a local resource who makes them for hopefully a reasonable price.Southwark will hopefully financially support the scheme,and we can hopefully make a few hundred and allocate them to various locations in the Ed area

[Muttley]

Let's put this ?15 'overpriced' bag in perspective. Somewhere around there's a person about to spend ?300k on a small flat in Bawdale Road. Imagine how they'll feel in a year's time when somebody says "you paid what? you been done mate...". ?15 seems small beer, especially when it's for a bag that now looks set to become a limited edition collectible, like the Sinclair C5.

[Kathryn]

Mre Robinson is also selling the harder dulwich bags but I think they were for ?2! I could be wrong.

[louisiana]

Just don't go parading you're I heart dulwich green bags around London, or before you know it everyone will be wanting to come here. Probably to Bawdale Road. :-S

[katgod]

I thought the stall on Sunday was really pretty and a lot of effort had gone in to it. I have a SMBS/Cheese Block reusable bag. I had to spend ?70 on cheese last Christmas to get one of those!!

[mrs cuckoo]

Hello it's the Two Cuckoos here. We didn't realise how much controversy our little kitchen table enterprise would provoke.....a big thanks to those of you who have posted supportive comments!

We had a really positive response to the bags on Sunday which is great as we'd invested a lot of time, money and effort in producing them. We could only fund a very limited run initially, but if they carry on selling like hot cakes then we can order in larger numbers and pass on the benefits to future customers. So far we haven't covered our costs, so please come along and support us in Dulwich Park on Sunday.

There's definitely room for limited editions and a general Lorship Lane bag - all the best to those who take that idea forward.

love

The Two Cuckoos

[Polly D]

The bag I bought has a big tree printed on it - it might be an acorn tree - and this website:

http://www.dulwichgoinggreener.org/

It's made of hessian it seems - sorry for my apalling pre-lunch description ...I've filled my tummy now

[Jeremy]

Muttley Wrote:

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> Let's put this ?15 'overpriced' bag in

> perspective. Somewhere around there's a person

> about to spend ?300k on a small flat in Bawdale

> Road. Imagine how they'll feel in a year's time

> when somebody says "you paid what? you been done

> mate...". ?15 seems small beer, especially when

> it's for a bag that now looks set to become a

> limited edition collectible, like the Sinclair C5.

Rubbish argument! you can buy perfectly good re-usable bags for one tenth of the price. You cannot buy a flat in ED for 30k.

[Muttley]

I don't do 'rubbish arguments' but I sometimes do tongue-in-cheek ones;-).

[Jeremy]

The Sincliar C5, however... what I wouldn't give for one of those beauties!

[Keef]

mrs cuckoo Wrote:

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> Hello it's the Two Cuckoos here. We didn't

> realise how much controversy our little kitchen

> table enterprise would provoke.....a big thanks to

> those of you who have posted supportive comments!

>

> We had a really positive response to the bags on

> Sunday which is great as we'd invested a lot of

> time, money and effort in producing them. We

> could only fund a very limited run initially, but

> if they carry on selling like hot cakes then we

> can order in larger numbers and pass on the

> benefits to future customers. So far we haven't

> covered our costs, so please come along and

> support us in Dulwich Park on Sunday.

>

> There's definitely room for limited editions and a

> general Lorship Lane bag - all the best to those

> who take that idea forward.

>

> love

> The Two Cuckoos

And you don't think you're ripping people off at all?! I went to the Lambeth country fair last year, and they were handing very nice cloth bags out for free! Like I said before, I'm all for people being green, but it sickens me when greedy people take advantage of those good intentions!

[MadWorld74]

Say it like it is Keef, say it like it is.........

[Keef]

I will! ;-)

[mockney piers]

easy tiger!! She's saying they're doing at a loss. We're hardly talking BP bulldozing villagers for profit here are we.

[elizlondon]

Re the I heart SE22 bags, yes they were more expensive than others, but they were a higher quality too. I paid ?4 for a Dulwich Festival bag at the fair, but it wasn't nearly as sturdy as the SE22 bags. However, I wanted one I could roll up small and keep in my handbag.

I assumed the high cost of the SE22 bags was due to a small production run, higher quality materials, and that it's a profit-making enterprise. Hopefully the price will come down with higher quantities of production as I would like to have one of them as well for carrying heavier items.

[Keef]

I'm sorry if I sounded a bit strong, and I definitely didn't mean to sound like it was a personal attack, but why do it at a loss, when the council will pay for it for you?!?!?

Why don't you offer your design forward as something to be funded by Southwark, so these bags (which are cool) can be had by lots of people at a sensible price.......

Alternitively, charge ?30 to cover your costs..... If they're selling like hot cakes, you should have no trouble finding some stupid people to part with their money... Not because they give a hoot about the environment, but because they have a limited edition bit of cotten that they paid ?30 for... ;-)