We wanted to let you know that the Carry On! Ridgway Reuses Crew will have a table at the Ridgway Farmer’s Market on Friday, June 8 and every other Friday for the summer.
We will be selling our new Carry On! packable Chico bags made from 100% recycled post-consumer plastic bottles. We are also making reusable copper straws and sewing reusable produce bags. All proceeds go to support our efforts to educate the community on the importance of using reusable products and banning single-use plastic bags in the town of Ridgway.
We will also be installing a new single-use plastic shopping bag recycling receptacle, made by Adam Johnson and the Ridgway shop classes, in the foyer of the Ridgway Mountain Market this week. Please feel free to drop off your clean plastic shopping bags (no ziplocs or other plastic packaging please) and we will be turning them into plarn (yarn made from plastic) and using the plarn to create reusable bags and other products that will also be available at our farmer’s market booth.
It is estimated that 4 trillion plastic bags are used worldwide annually. Only 1 percent of plastic bags are returned for recycling. Americans throw away 100 billion plastic bags annually. That’s about 307 bags per person!
All that waste can be eliminated by switching to reusable shopping bags.
The Carry On! Crew
Indigo Krois, Maizy Gordon, Autumn Sagal, Eleni Wallin, Kayla Bolane
Ridgway
