Textiles Group
Contact:
Abigail Petit, 01273 472211, abi@gossypium.co.uk
Holly Wood, 01273 812523, holly@adventuresinart.co.uk
First meeting:
Tues 22 May, Castle Cottage, Castle Lane, 9.30am
Say no to plastic bags!
Gossypium is running a 'Say no to plastic bags' campaign. We have got 20 different businesses, including Bags of Books, Seasons, Kings Framers and Pen to Paper, to participate in a community bag. This will have the logos of all these businesses on as well as the slogan 'Love Lewes Shop Local' and a drawing of the High Street by Julian Bell. These are being made in the UK from fairly traded organic Indian cotton. They should be in the shops in around a month. We are also offering bespoke bags to individual business, which they can design themselves.
Gossypium is making no profit from the project; we see ourselves as simply facilitating and speeding up a process that would inevitably take place. The issue of plastic bags is an immediate, practical aspect of everyone's lives that can be easily changed for the good of people and the planet.
If you are interested in ordering bespoke bags please contact us. We are also collecting pledges from people to stop using plastic bags - come into the shop if you would like to take part.
Get involved: contact hello [at] TransitionTownLewes.org.uk
