Hanover High Kids spreading the word

Cool! Treehugger picked up the story about the Hanover High kids in New Hampshire:

One Bag at a Time....

December 7, 2006
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/12/one_bag_at_a_ti.php

Hanover High School students in Hanover, NH have decided to help protect their environment by taking on the challenge of convincing consumers in their town to switch from disposable shopping bags to reusable ones. The whole project sprang out of a family trip one of the kids took to Australia, where they learned about a similar grass-roots project that spread in that country...

School Fundraiser: Bag Recycling

Elementary schools recycling bags for cash

December 1, 2006
http://www.thedailycitizen.com/articles/2006/12/02/news/local_news/news03.txt
By Pat Hambrick, The Daily Citizen, Searcy, Arkansas

People do a lot of extra shopping this time of year and end up with stacks of empty shopping bags that have to be dealt with. An alternative approach allows locals to support a local school, declutter your home, and do something good for the environment — all by simply taking your plastic shopping bags to your local elementary school, where students are earning money...

Kids lead the way

Summarizes some recent student run campaigns:

Kids can see the writing on the wall

Dec. 2, 2006
http://www.badlani.com/blog/2006/12/02/kids-can-see-the-writing-on-the-wall-businesses-should-learn-from-them/

Kids can see the writing on the wall. Businesses should learn from them.

Kids are faster than businesses in catching on that plastic bags are a big issue for the world today and one of the easiest problems to solve...

High School Student Campaign

Students promote greener bags

November 29, 2006
http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2006/11/29/students_promote_greener_bags/
Lebanon Valley News, HANOVER, N.H.

A group of Hanover High School students is hoping to persuade consumers to give up disposable shopping bags.
The group of 14- and 15-year-olds has laid out plans and secured sponsors for a publicity campaign to boost the use of reusable polypropylene bags at stores in Hanover...

Roots & Shoots

Jane Goodall's wonderful family environmental organization Roots & Shoots has a new reusable bag campaign. The website has materials like posters and fact sheets that kids can use to educate their neighbors about plastic bags. There's a great letter from Dr. Jane about why this campaign is important. They are even running a letter writing campaign to the President Kikwete of Tanzania, thanking him for banning plastic bags in his country.

Roots & Shoots Reusable Bag Campaign

http://www.rootsandshoots.org/campaigns/reusablebag