| For 2008, Fox Carnival is going green in an active way, by transforming what would be rubbish into art. Currently, 1.2 trillion plastic bags are produced in Britain every year – that means three hundred bags for every person every year! |
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| Shockingly, thirteen billion bags are given out in our shops annually... Just think of all the different coloured plastic shopping bags you know are handed out by shops in Notting Hill Gate alone. |
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| Of these thirteen billion bags distributed throughout the UK, eight billion end up in landfill. Others get blown away and find themselves in the sea. There, they form ninety per cent of all marine rubbish: killing sea-life such as loggerhead turtles. (The turtles can mistake floating bags for jellyfish and eat them). A million seabirds are estimated to be killed by plastic each year, as well as more than 100,000 seals, sea lions, whales and dolphins. |
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| Plastic bags litter our precious environment, yet each and every one takes between twenty and one thousand years to decompose! |
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| Given the worldwide drive to find alternatives and halt the use of plastic shopping bags, our 2008 project is both timely and important. We will collect colourful plastic shopping bags, to recycle them into artworks. They will be transformed into pom-poms, flags and windsocks to adorn our poles. |
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| For Carnival 2008, we will carry this message of change along the streets of Notting Hill. So come and join us on Sunday, 24 August 2008. We will give plastic bags a fabulous, final sendoff – recycling just like artists such as Mleak, Virgina Fleck, Anna Roebuck (creator of Aberystwyth Arts Centre's bags2riches), Dan Steinhilber and projects such as Japan's Garbage Bag Art Work initiative. |
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| Check out these DIY hints for yourself: a fusing plastic bags tutorial (CLICK HERE), how to turn plastic bags into yarn (CLICK HERE) or how to make a plastic bag pom-pom (CLICK HERE). Please do contribute your own ideas about how to use plastic bags – just CLICK HERE and email them to us! |
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