Hello Fellow Fabric Heroes!

Hi, we are Zavier (10 years old) and Bailey Walker (8 years old) and we want to help the environment. We watched a David Attenborough documentary on global warming and want to make a difference. After some research, we realised what a dramatic impact plastic was having on our planet. Many animals are consuming huge quantities of plastic due to our discarded waste. This is causing a build-up in the ecosystem. Animals are getting very sick and the problem will just get bigger.

We don’t understand why plastic bags were replaced with tougher, more resistant plastic bags. On 13th June, the ABC reported a 40-year-old plastic KFC bag had been found in the water on the Sunshine Coast. This plastic bag has been in our ocean’s ecosystem for 40 years, slowly disintegrating and entering into animal’s bodies. Imagine how long a “reusable” plastic bag would take to break down?? While boating, a family member has already seen reusable plastic bags floating in our ocean. 

You can’t save the environment by replacing plastic with plastic. So we have started a campaign in the City of Canning to reduce the use of reusable plastic bags and have become FABRIC HEROES!!! An education program, getting children involved to save the planet’s animals will help influence adults’ purchasing choices. We are extremely motivated. As a result we have created some amazing posters, fact sheets and helped build our website, www.fabricheroes.org. Due to the amount of money involved, Mum and Dad (Amanda & Mark Walker), are helping us out 🙂

The biggest reasons people purchase reusable plastic bags are:

1. the fact they are cheaper than the fabric bags; and
   
2. the shopper has usually left their bags at home.

We want to install a “Fabric Bag Swap Station” at the shops around the City of Canning. Initially starting with Riverton Fresh IGA and then expanding to other shops around the City of Canning.

A “Fabric Bag Swap Station will be created using our crowd funding money. Further, we will provide a good number of Fabric bags for people to use. The idea being, people can go and get a free Fabric bag, instead of buying a reusable plastic bag. Our campaign will encourage adults to “pay it forward “. If they have a spare fabric bag the next time the shop, they can replenish the “Swap Station”. We understand people may abuse this system. However, we also believe 99% of people want to do the right thing. As with the book swap, people will embrace the “pay it forward” idea and if we get the schools within the City of Canning involved, children will encourage their parents to do so too.

Donate today and become a Fabric Hero like us!