Bags for Good co-ordinator Fiona Jenkin (right) and Otago Farmers Market manager Kate Vercoe display the ‘‘borrow and bring back’’ bags now available for shoppers at the Saturday market. PHOTO: SUPPLIEDDunedin's Bags for Good project has extended its support to shoppers at Otago Farmers Market by providing a stand of "borrow and bring back'' bags. The Stitch Kitchen hosts Bags for Good sewing bees, where volunteers make fabric bags to loan or buy through local organisations. Inspired by international "bag libraries'', Bags for Good started in May, 2017, and since then volunteers have made about 350 bags. Otago Farmers Market manager Kate Vercoe was excited to have the bags available, as they were in line with the market's zero waste aims.

Source: Otago Daily Times October 13, 2018 15:33 UTC