Little Green Bags!...

After having gone to a talk hosted by the Gaia Parnership at the Hay Festival (as one does!) which was all about eco greenish issues and saving the planet by all of us working together as one world in harmony, I decided to do something about my stationary and paper bag suppliers for my business. I must confess that before this I didn't have a clue whether my bags were made of recycled paper or if they were biodegradable or from sustainable forest sources, not a clue. I seized the initiative and telephoned one of the numbers in the "Greenlinks Directory" which I'd picked up at Hay on Wye. The company in question, Reprodux Design and Print of Hereford, who made all sorts of bold claims in their literature about recycled papers and vegetable based inks, said that they couldn't supply bags and told me to "Google it" to find out. Not really what I was hoping to hear I must say. But I pressed on, spending some considerable time going out of my way in my determination to do my bit and make a difference. After having left messages with the Green Party and a host of other organisations I ended up talking to the Soil Association to find out who supplies their Organic Food generic bags and was told of two more companies who were manufacturers of these type of bags. I honestly was amazed at how much effort was required to find the answer to the fairly simple question of where I could get hold of those little green bags. To cut a very long story short, through this rather circuitous route, I found out about and have now arranged to see a company called Associated Packaging, who have a range of biodegradable carrier bags and recycled paper bags based in, you've guessed it, Canon Lane, Tonbridge.