TALKS WITH TESCO 11 Sep 2010 | 01:47 am

As promised, the Corporate Affairs Manager for the Aberdeenshire area, Douglas Wilson, met with me last Tuesday, September 7.  We had a lengthy chat about Tesco’s policies relating to single-use plast...

TALKS WITH TESCO 18 Aug 2010 | 11:46 pm

The bulldozers are busy, so it looks as if the Tesco Store is finally going to be built on the outskirts of Banchory.  There are very mixed views among residents about this. The main concerns are that...

STOP THE DROP 27 Mar 2010 | 09:51 pm

Bonnie Banchory is calling on the people of Banchory to show how much they hate litter by joining in with Beautiful Scotland’s National Spring Clean on Sunday, April 25, at 2pm for approximately 1hour...

MORRISONS START TO ASK THE RIGHT QUESTION 5 Mar 2010 | 03:44 am

The first question the self-service checkout machines in Morrisons now ask is ‘DO YOU HAVE YOUR OWN BAG?’. Fantastic!

SPREADING THE WORD 8 Dec 2009 | 10:13 am

My grandson  [almost 9 years old] who lives in London has made his own video of  The Plastic Bag Story [with some help from his father] and will present it to his class tomorrow.  He wanted to simplif...

The Plastic Bag Story 17 Nov 2009 | 09:50 am

TALKING WITH MORRISONS 17 Nov 2009 | 05:48 am

Banchory is experiencing a problem with Academy students buying their lunches at our local Morrisons Supermarket and discarding the plastic bags along the road and around the parks before heading back...

NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PLASTIC BAG FREE DAY – TOMORROW 12 Sep 2009 | 04:01 am

Banchory is getting ready to join the Plastic Bag Free Day that is being organised by many groups across the United Kingdom and the world tomorrow, September 12, 2009. Posters have gone up in shops i...

PLASTIC BAG FREE DAY PRESS RELEASE PREPARED BY THE MARINE CONSAERVATION SOCIETY 23 Jul 2009 | 10:12 pm

FIRST INTERNATIONAL PLASTIC BAG FREE DAY Saturday Shoppers Urged to Ditch the Plastic Bags on the 12th September. The world’s first Plastic Bag Free Day takes place on the 12th September 2009. The M...

PLASTIC BAGS IN THE NEWS AGAIN 19 Jul 2009 | 02:20 am

Go to www.channel4.com  and type plastic bags into their search engine.