Bring Your Bag Wisconsin
Articles
Please let us know about other useful resources. Thank you!
"Bring your own (reusable) bag" by the Los Angeles Times editorial board
"Bring Your Own Shopping Bag" by William Klein, April 2012
"How to Remember Your Reusable Bags" by Dawn Gifford, Small Footprint Family
"Plastic bag use plummets in England since 5p charge" by Rebecca Morelle, BBC News, 30 July 2016
3 ways to avoid having more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050 by Meghan Werft, Global Citizen
"Carrier bags: why there's a charge" from GOV.UK's Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
"Scotland's Plastic Bag Ban Saved 650 Million Bags In Its First Year" by Charlie Sorrel, COMET Corporation
The Impacts of Single-Use Plastic Bags by Geoff Shester, Ph.D., MBNMS Sanctuary Advisory Council
Movies & Videos
Organizations
Bring Your Bag Bloomington (BYBB), Bloomington, Indiana (Lots of additional links here!)
Books
Plastic-Free: How I Kicked the Plastic Habit and How You Can Too by Beth Terry
Plastic Purge: How to Use Less Plastic, Eat Better, Keep Toxins Out of Your Body, and Help Save the Sea Turtles! by Michael SanClements
for children and young adults:
One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia by Miranda Paul
Plastic (What Happens When We Recycle) by Jillian Powell
Plastic, Ahoy!: Investigating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by Patricia Newman
Take a Closer Look at Plastic by JoAnn Early Macken
Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion (Scientists in the Field Series) by Loree Griffin Burns
Trash Talk: Moving Toward a Zero-Waste World by Michelle Mulder
Reusable Bags
Boomerang Bags is a community driven initiative tackling plastic pollution at the grassroots level. Dedicated schools, community groups, businesses and volunteers get together to make re-useable Boomerang Bags using recycled materials as a means to replace plastic bags. Through Boomerang Bags we start conversations, make friends, up-cycle materials and work towards shifting society’s throw away mentality to a more sustainable revolution of re-use – one community, needle and thread at a time!
(Bring Your Bag Shorewood is exploring this opportunity for our possible next group project.)
Ban Plastic Bags (Californians Against Waste)
Stop Plastic Pollution (Yes on 67 - Protect California's Plastic Bag Ban)