tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8066072551963827852.post-36567132582147365012008-03-14T14:19:00.005Z2008-03-14T15:21:19.237ZYou may have noticed that we're offering a canvas shopping bag in the <a href="http://www.fibrecrafts.com/ProductDetail.asp?Level1=4&Level2=4&Level3=0&PID=9424&Action=&FromPage=4">Special Offers</a> section of our web site. I hope this blog will urge you to consider buying one or a reusable one like it.<br /> <br />As you are aware, plastic carrier bags are getting a lot of negative press at the moment. There are calls, from the environmentally conscious of us, that these bags should be banned. <br /> <br />Here are just a few good reasons why I think shoppers should leave their carriers at the till:<br /> <br />When I looked out of the window after all that wind this week, I expected to see leaves and branches blown across the garden and maybe the odd cracked fence panel. Instead, there were two torn carrier bags and a crisp packet.<br /> <br />On the way to work I noticed a familiar bright orange plastic bag stuck up in a tree - further along the road I noticed another! <br /> <br />Driving home, I witnessed the near disaster of a motorcyclist swerving to avoid an air born carrier bag (not orange this time!) fully inflated and swirling erratically across the road.<br /> <br />Allison Farlow<br />Graphics & Marketing, FIBRECRAFTS<br /><br /><a href="https://www.fibrecrafts.com/images/products/zoom/CBL_Zoom_1.jpg"><img style="float:center; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="https://www.fibrecrafts.com/images/products/zoom/CBL_Zoom_1.jpg" border="0" alt="Canvas Shopping Bag from FIBRECRAFTS" /></a>FIBRECRAFTShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02448869582753502792noreply@blogger.com