Snowdonia Society's Conservation Volunteers are planning to bang the drum against plastic carrier bags and so are arranging a couple of dates to coincide with National Volunteer week, 1-7 June.

 Wednesday 4^th June 2008 - 10 to 4 at Capel Curig Community Centre: With as many sewing machines as we can muster, as much old fabric as we can gather - by this I mean, unwanted curtains, bedding and upholstery fabric, or clothes if they can be easily converted - we will be making up a variety of fabric reusable shopping bags.

Saturday 7^th June 2008: We will scatter around the park to distribute the bags very visibly in places where plastic bags are widely distributed.  We intend to hand the bags out for free, with donations to the Society should people wish, to help us continue our conservation tasks around the Snowdonia National Park.

This will give us a chance to highlight the problem of plastic bags within the National Park, so any ideas for impromptu stands or displays to take with us would be brilliant.

 So to summarise... we need anyone willing to man and possibly lend a sewing machine for the day.  If you are an experienced sewer please come along and help the novices.  We will be hoping also to put together a simple instruction sheet to place in the bags so that people can go off and create more of the same.  We want to spread the word about how easy it is to convert old items into newly recycled and very useful items that are cheap, readily available, and kind to the environment.