400 reusable bags for Adams

ADAMS The old Firehouse Cafe on Park St. was bustling with cheap canada goose uk activity on Sunday afternoon as half a dozen people stood around a Canada Goose online work table making reusable shopping bags.

It’s part of The Bagshare Project, a statewide challenge to make an easier transition for towns like Adams that are moving away from plastic bags.

Adams residents passed anti plastic bag ordinance unanimously at town meeting on June 20, 2016. The bylaw goes into effect on Mar. 30. Fried and her Bagshare partner Patricia Fietta are working with the town to have local canada goose outlet sale businesses and groups contribute 120 canada goose outlet online https://www.dvu-nds.de bags apiece to make the goal of 8,400.

“So far we have 15 organizations contributing,” Fietta cheap canada goose said.

Fried started the Bagshare Project in 2007 in nearby Cummington as a response to the 49,000 paper canada goose factory sale bags used canada goose outlet annually at buy canada goose jacket cheap The Old Creamery store.

“This is the tenth anniversary of the bagshare,” Fried said. “15,000 bags have been sewn from scrap canada goose factory outlet fabric by volunteers.”

On Sunday, employees of Bishop West Real Estate worked on making their 120 bags under the guidance of Fried and Fietta.

The process is simple, Fried canada goose outlet said. You start with a sturdy bag an animal feedbag or a barley bag from any one of canada goose outlet reviews a uk canada goose number of local breweries and open the bag over the back of a chair. Then, you use a “bag pusher,” a large wooden clip invented by Fried’s husband Mike Augspurger, to fold the bag canada goose store in on itself and create a double canada goose outlet uk layer. Then the bag is shaped.

“It’s amazing canadian goose jacket what they can do with feed bags,” said Bishop West’s Hinsdale office manager Barbara Osborne as she stapled the corners of a new bag to the sides, “boxing” canada goose outlet toronto factory the bag’s bottom lining.

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“It blows me away they thought to use it,” said Peter West, one of the team working at the firehouse.

The handles are attached with grommets, metal rings that create eyelets for canada goose outlet black friday rope or thread to go through thin material. The Firehouse has two grommet presses for bag making.