ONE day of school lunch wrappings from ONE school ...along with ONE weeks crisp packets collected outside school  all go to make the scales of the first 10 ft of our Snake!

With 500 packs of Tayto are sold every minute this amounts to two hundred sixty-two million eight hundred thousand crisp packets every year. The composite material conventionally used to keep crisps fresh is not biodegradable and cannot be recycled so that's an awful lot of landfill and poison for the environment. Given the current single use plastic crisis we are asking Largo foods to address this issue IMMEDIATELY and come up with a solution to change the materials for their packets to one which is recyclable or even more preferably a non-plastic environmentally friendly material. www.peopleagainstplastic.ie
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Well we finally are under way ... The young people of Dublin 8 ( CMS Learning Centre, St. Francis CBS, Warrenmount and St Bridget's primary schools) are all coming together and reshaping all their school lunch single use plastic to create scales of a giant 30ft snake.... wonderful young talent  and lively debate (with some impromptu dancing) all day.....but the scary part is how much plastic was waiting fo me when I arrived. Each lunch consists of..

• Chopped fruit in a sealed plastic bag
• Sandwich in a sealed plastic bag, with a "fresh daily" tag
• Water bottle 
• Milk carton with Plastic straw in a plastic bag
• Pasta pot/Granola with plastic fork/spoon

and this is EVERY day.... so as you can imagine these young people find it difficult to understand that single use plastic is something to be concerned about - it's their everyday reality!

Great to see the minister for culture Josepha Madigan and Katherine Zappone sporting some of the plastic headdress creations made in recent PEOPLE AGAINST PLASTIC workshops. Speaking last week at the National Gallery of Ireland Ministers Madigan, McHugh and Zappone announced a combined 2019 budget of €6m for Creative Youth, an initiative of the all-of-Government Creative Ireland Programme, which aims to enable the creativity of children and young people.

Great to see the minister for culture Josepha Madigan and Katherine Zappone sporting some of the plastic headdress creations made in recent PEOPLE AGAINST PLASTIC workshops. Speaking last week at the National Gallery of Ireland Ministers Madigan, McHugh and Zappone announced a combined 2019 budget of €6m for Creative Youth, an initiative of the all-of-Government Creative Ireland Programme, which aims to enable the creativity of children and young people.

Delighted to be working with the wonderful young people from of Dublin 8 - St Francis CBS, The Iveagh trust and the  YMCA in conjunction with  St Patrick's Cathedral
on a new arts project highlighting the sheer lunacy of our usage of Single Use Plastic.

Each of the 4 items in the daily lunches provided to the students comes individually wrapped in plastic (health and safety requirements)  and together we are collecting it (and their crisp packets) over a 4 week period to create a 30 ft Plastic snake!
How can we possibly hope to teach young people to use less plastic if we are giving them no alternatives?
WATCH THIS SPACE!

 Delighted to be working with the wonderful young people from of Dublin 8 - St Francis CBS, The Iveagh trust and the  YMCA in conjunction with  St Patrick's Cathedral
on a new arts project highlighting the sheer lunacy of our usage of Single Use Plastic.

Each of the 4 items in the daily lunches provided to the students comes individually wrapped in plastic (health and safety requirments)  and together we are collecting it (and their crisp packets) over a 4 week period to create a 30 ft Plastic snake!
How can we possibly hope to teach young people to use less plastic if we are giving them no alternatives?
WATCH THIS SPACE!

Well can't believe its been a week since  bringing our Single Use Plastic Photobooth to Ballymaloe!
Not only did we get to play with the general public but our single use plastic headdresses were one of the highlights of the sustainable fashion show and  I was invited to speak about them while the models strutted their stuff!
​A thoroughly enjoyable weekend and thanks to Helene Wallhoran, Rory Allen and all at Ballymaloe for inviting us and also for highlighting sustainability at their Christmas fair!

Well after a busy weekend with our Photobooth at Ballymaloe Sustainable Living Festival (pics yet to come).... it was great to to be invited to Cork Life Centre as their visiting artist for "One World Week" - especially as this year's theme is Activism and the Sustainable Development Goals. I worked with a great bunch of teenagers and together we crafted some amazing new headdresses whilst discussing our plastic usage and ways to reduce it. We opened up Nescafe Gusto capsules and found 4 more layers of plastic inside each capsule that we weren't aware of - scary stuff indeed!! Wonderful energy with these teens and a great learning experience all round. Big thanks to Helen O' Keeffe (art teacher) and all the staff at Cork Life Centre for their support.

We have been invited by Ballymaloe Sustainable Living Festival to bring our 'People Against Plastic' campaign as part of their Christmas Craft Fair.
If you are in the neighbourhood, do drop in and say hello and have your portrait taken..