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Sustainable Sequins – Who’d have thought?

By Emily Hay 17th May 2024 I found this fun story today which put a big smile on my face, as did the lovely pink boots! It’s about making sequins sustainable, by making them using plant-based plastic sourced from polyactic acid, which is derived from agricultural...

Ecosilk Bags – 1999 to 2019 – twenty years on…

By Emily Hay 1st September 2019 In the winter of 1999, something inside my brain suddenly shifted, and I decided to make my own shopping bags. I was sick of having cupboards full of plastic bags that I did not need, or could not find a use for, but was loath to simply...

A critique of ‘Bag for Good’

By Emily Hay, 7th October 2018 On July 1st, the major supermarkets implemented their new policy of banning single use plastic shopping bags. One of the alternative bags provided for sale at the checkout is called a ‘Bag for Good’, costing 99 cents, made from...