If sewing is your 'bag' you might want to get into Morsbagging; the art of 'sociable guerilla bagging' that's great for the environment and also a lot of fun.
The idea is to start little groups, called 'pods' who get together with old scraps of fabric, a bottle of wine and have a fun evening sewing bags. Once you have enough bags, you distribute them free in local supermarkets, thus replacing the need for plastic bags. While doing so, you also try to educate shoppers about the dangers to wildlife of old plastic bags and urge them to re-use the morsbags instead of using up new plastic carriers.
It's such a simple idea, you wonder why the Government hasn't implemented it! You can get the pattern from the website, join an existing pod or start one of your own. Of course, you don't need to have a group or even distribute bags, if you just make one for yourself that's just as good. I like the fact that there's a 'top of the pods' league table on the site that ranks each pod by the number of bags produced: the current pole position is held by a group in Leicester who've made 1420 of the things - great work!
