Bag It initiates a community conversation, "gets people thinking" and drives local leadership
The Durango Bag It Campaign is gaining coverage, traction and building an unified and educated community front - pushing Durango City Council to consider banning single-use plastic bags.
The bag ban is expected to go before the City Council for a vote sometime in spring 2012. However, it's not just a City Council decision, but a community decision and starts with us, community members, voicing our concerns and opinions.
Take a moment and read through some of the community comments over the last few months, ranging from the economic benefits to social and environmental considerations of banning single-use plastic bags.
The Bag It Community Conversation:
"Banning the Bag: Durango can bolster its image with a leadership role" Durango Herald, 1/22/12
- "Ban all activities that burden landfill" Durango Herald, 1/09/12
- "Add your voice to the Movement to ban plastic bags" Durango Herald, 1/05/12
- "Bag It Discussion Has Gotten People Thinking" Durango Herald, 1/04/12
- "All of our Actions Affect Each Other" Durango Herald, 1/03/12
- "Switching Away from Plastic is Easier than it Seems" Durango Herald, 1/01/12
- "Banning Plastic Bags Would Save People Money" Durango Herald, 12/27/11
- "Seattle Officials Ban Plastic Bags" Durango Herald, 12/20/11
- "Taking Shopping Elsewhere to Flee Bag Ban Does Not Compute" Durango Herald, 12/19/11
- "Bag Ban Worth the Cost of Freedom" Durango Herald 12/19/11
- "Rid Plastic Bags by Education, Not Government" Durango Herald 12/16/11
- "Don't Limit Business, Choice with Bag Ban" Durango Herald 12/16/11
- "Argument for Bag Ban Debunk Those Against the Proposal" Durango Herald 12/12/11
- "Bag ban: Good or bad?" Durango Herald, 12/07/11
- Screening of the film Bag It at the Smiley Theater, 11/17/11 (see flyer below). Afternoon screening at Durango High School to a large crowd of students.
- Opposition to the Bag It Campaign, Durango Herald, 11/17/11
- "Banning single-use bags no brainer first step," Durango Herald, 11/14/11
- "Group wants you to 'bag it,'" Durango Herald, 11/12/11
- "Is it time to bag plastic?" Durango Herald, 6/15/11
Durango Bag It is thinking globally and acting locally. Durango does not have to always follow in step to what other progressive communities are doing that is, bottom-line smart, like Telluride, which enacted a plastic bag ban ordinance in 2010. Durango City Council and the community needs to look long term and consider what banning single-use plastic bags provides - a practical application for a larger goal of working toward becoming a zero waste community.
Learn more about Bag It:
- Visit the Durango Bag It Website
- Sign the Durango Bag It Petition
- Visit the Durango Bag It Facebook page. "Like" Us on Facebook to receive regular updates about the campaign.
- Sign our petition! We have over 1,000 signatures in support of such a ban, and we need to continue to grow this momentum.
- Come join us! Contact the Sustainability Alliance or Erich Bussian to learn about upcoming meetings.
- Attend a Durango City Council meeting and voice your concerns about why you want to see this happen.
- Write "letters to the editor" to the Durango Herald and the Durango Telegraph.
- Join us on our Durango Bag It Facebook page for more conversations, sharing, and brainstorming.