Go green with a free canvas tote
Down with the dastardly plastic bag! New York City students want shoppers to go green and use cloth instead. So three students have designed eco-friendly canvas tote bags and you can get them today - for FREE!
The giveaway is today at 12:30 p.m. in the Union Square Greenmarket, and Council Members Gale Brewer and Simcha Felder will be on hand to pass them out.
The bags were designed by Yiufat (Benny) Lam, Giorgia Poperhem, and Melissa Mercado, who are public school students from LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in Lincoln Center.
The designs were chosen from hundreds of submissions from local high school and college students. After a viewing of the finalists at City Hall, these three came out on top.
A City Council spokesman says there are 5,000 bags set to circulate at greenmarkets, supermarkets, and other areas throughout the city. So get one while you can.
FOR A BAG: Go to the Union Square Greenmarket at Broadway b/w 16th and 17th streets at 12:30 p.m. today.
For more on NYC's tangled relationship with the plastic bag - read this: Ian Frazier's "Tilting at Tree Bags," the story of how he tried to conquer the problem of plastic bags stuck in city trees.
-- Lauren Johnston
Comments (2)
the effort is commendable - but 5000 bags is probably 1 minute of use for NYC consumers
omg i want it ! but i'm from chile! i can buy it by internet? pleasee!