Could Brighton dispense with disposable bags?
Is Brighton the sort of city that could start a revolution? Could the North Laine be a trailblazer for environmental endeavour? As the threat of global warming intensifies so does the need to be increasingly ruthless in the denial of luxuries we can easily live without. Packaging on goods for example could so easily be dispensed with as could disposable plastic bags to carry home our shopping and one of the most environmentally destructive of all luxuries – air-conditioning – could be switched off (unless the temperature hits 90 degrees!) Sounds like a dream? But not so. The North Laine Traders Association is already well advanced on their “sustainable bag” project to provide a generic North Laine branded, sustainable alternative to plastic bags for businesses in their area (see Minutes of the NLTA Street Reps meeting in May in the knowledgebase). Modbury in Devon has already set the benchmark. It has become the first town in the British Isles to stop issuing plastic shopping bags when
