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| Supporting ‘Banish the Bags’ campaign MONKTON Elm Garden & Pet Centre is calling on fellow businesses in the Taunton area to join it this month (March) in reducing the use of plastic carrier bags to improve the environment. We have started charging 5p for its bags with all the money going to the Woodlands Trust to pay for the planting of trees.  General Manager of the garden centre, Norma Moore said: “To help with growing concerns about the use of plastic bags, we have pledged to cut the number of bags we pack customers’ shopping in and to instead offer them an eco-shopper, made from recycled materials, which is free to anyone spending £5 or more in-store. “We will also give people tips in-store regarding re-using any plastic carrier bags they may have. It would be great if we could eventually become plastic bag free and the rest of Taunton could join us.” Monkton Elm Garden and Pet Centre is backing the campaigns of Marks and Spencer and the Daily Mail to encourage people to use fewer carrier bags.  The garden centre is supporting the Daily Mail’s ‘Banish The Bags’ campaign, which was launched last month (February).Monkton Elm Garden & Pet Centre is also supporting the plans of Marks and Spencer, which wants to stop offering customers free throwaway carrier bags at its UK food stores including Taunton and to start charging 5p for the bags beginning in May. The carrier bag scheme is part of Monkton Elm Garden & Pet Centre’s on-going green gardening and recycling initiatives taking place throughout 2008. Norma explained: “We take our carbon emissions and the environment very seriously at Monkton Elm Garden & Pet Centre and are keen to develop our environmental policies during the coming year. “We already offer customers the facilities to recycle aluminium, plastic, paper and clothing on site.” Monkton Elm Garden and Pet Centre launched a free amnesty this month (March) for gardeners to take their old plastic gardening pots or trays to the garden centre for disposal in an eco-friendly manner. Norma continued: “Visitors can bring in any old plastic pots until March 31, 2008 and leave them in our pot drop area. People can also swap pots and exchange any they do not want with other ones, which may have been dropped off by a fellow gardener.” In another green initiative launched last month (February) to benefit the environment, the garden centre set up an area dedicated to eco-friendly products in-store to offer customers a more environmentally-friendly choice of products. |
