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| Following the Daily Mail's campaign to 'Banish the Bags', Shared Earth has taken up the cause by putting a charge of 10p on its plastic bags, and will also start charging for paper carriers too when they are introduced in the next few weeks. |
| To encourage customers to buy re-usable shopping bags, we have permanently reduced the cost of our jute shopper 'Say No To Plastic Bags' to half price, and are offering 20% off all our other jute shoppers at our online shop until the end of April 2008. |
| Here is a selection of our range: |
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| Click here to see the the full range of jute shopping bags at reduced prices. |
| Shared Earth's Managing Director Jeremy Piercy says, "High street stores give away 13 billion plastic bags each year in the UK. That’s 15 a week for every family. They are used, on average, for 20 minutes, and then thrown away. They litter our streets and the countryside, and are a huge danger to wildlife. Worldwide over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 dolphins, whales and other sea animals lost their lives last year, their wings, beaks or legs caught in plastic or their digestive tracts blocked because the plastic was mistaken for food." Read more... |
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| Fair Trade Fortnight ran from 25th February - 9th March 2008. |
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This is the 3rd year that Shared Earth has taken part in the York Fair Trade Market and it just keeps getting better and better.
All the York shop staff take part and are on hand to talk to customers about our products and Fair Trade too.
This year, the Lord Mayor of York and Civic party visited our stall to meet Jeremy Piercy, founder and MD of Shared Earth.
Fair Trade Fortnight is always busy for us both instore and at the various stalls we do, all the extra publicity it generates is always good for us.
We do however celebrate Fair Trade all day every day, 365 days a year! |
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| As part of the recent re-branding exercise, Shared Earth’s Birmingham shop was given a new look with a complete refit inside and out using materials from Fair Trade producers. Read more... |
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| Shared Earth's Managing Director Jeremy Piercy and Designer Michelle Hughes visited Bali recently and met the producers who work for the Mitra Bali Foundation. They were looking at new product development which will be ready for January 2009. There will be many new products including new wooden cats, wooden pencils and Bali leaf stationery. |
| Mitra Bali work within a framework of approx 100 producer groups employing over 1,000 artisans with access to a free Design Centre facility for producers which provides a library of books, current magazines and consultations with product designers. They also hold monthly workshops focusing on new trends, technical aspects of production, health & safety and the use of environmentally sustainable resources. |
| Click here to read Jeremy's account of "Bali - the island of cats". |
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| Shared Earth's Managing Director writes a column on Fair Trade and related issues once a fortnight for New Consumer. These articles are available to read on our website. Click here to view. |
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| Shared Earth shops are located in York, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, Cardiff, Liverpool and Bristol. |
| Click here for shop details. |
| Go to www.sharedearth.co.uk to browse all the products that we sell at our online shop. |
