I started campaigning about plastic bags at the end of 2000, so it’s now 7 years on and we’re not winning yet. How much longer do we need?

Ireland’s had a tax on plastic bags for 6 years now; plastic bag use has gone right down but the roadsides, hills, valleys, bogs and beaches are still covered with litter, like our roads 96% of which in our lifetimes will never break down.

So a plastic bag tax is not going to solve all our problems.

Everyone I speak to – and that’s thousands of people – knows something’s wrong and we feel worse because we don’t know what to do. Or maybe we just haven’t got round to doing it.

Talks are underway with media leaders, government leaders [elected and permanent staff] environment agencies from grassroots to global, and people of all ages.

The media are not doing anything near enough in this crisis.

Let’s stop talking bad news, what’s going wrong and can’t be fixed
Let’s start making good news about things people are doing
All over this country
All over the world

Send your news to Baglady, and join the team!

‘I always feel better if I’m doing something’
Ian Cohen, Member of the Legislative Assembly, New South Wales, Australia

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Baglady meets NI’s new Environment Minister, Arlene Foster at the NEEDabag? Film Launch at Queen’s Film Theatre, and returns to Ballymena Bus & Railway Station to do something she’s wanted to do for a long time.

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Baglady and crew join BBC Radio Foyle’s Do One Thing campaign to make life easier for Derry wildlife.

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Saints and Scholars Integrated Primary School join the local fight against huge electric pylons; Mullavilly PS report on their environment work.

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As they prepare for the reopening of Castle Hill and their beautiful view, after hundreds of years, the people of Dungannon welcome old friends and new arrivals with a strong environmental message. Howard Primary School show us how they are leading the way for Eco-schools.

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2nd year Queens medical student Kim Stevenson and her pal, Percy Plastic, join Baglady on a visit to Taughmonagh where the first signs of greenmice appear; then meet Centra managers and No Alibis bookshop owner Dave to discuss how saying no to plastic bags is good business sense, too.

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Here’s where you can see us over the next few weeks doing out public edits in the afternoons (don’t forget you can always follow our progress on the map):

Thursday 7th June: Market Square, Dungannon
Friday 8th June: The Mall, Armagh
Saturday 9th June: Guildhall Square, Derry

Come along for a chat, we are all friendly folks.

Finally, we haven’t managed to get our films for Ballycastle and Downpatrick online yet: we’ll be doing this just as soon as we can. Thanks for your patience.