LYME TURNED GREENER AT ITS ‘4 R’ FAIR
ON EASTER SATURDAY, 22nd MARCH 2008.
At 10am on Easter Saturday 22nd March, a modern-day Pied Piper - with a horde of ratties, big and small - led the way down Broad Street in Lyme Regis to the Marine Theatre where Turn Lyme Green held its Green Fair.
The environmental group put on a fantastic range of activities revolving round the campaign’s ‘4R’ slogan - ‘Remember! Reduce, Reuse, Recyle’.
Town Crier Phil Street and Pied Piper Richard Smith lead the rats down Broad Street. Thanks to our local constabulary for stopping the traffic!
The Rats, Richard and Phil with our patron Prof. Sir Ghillean Prance with the Cobb in the background.
Stalls featured information about alternatives to plastic bags, home composting, recycling, and How We Used to Shop. The Bag Ladies made funky fabric bag for free at the Great Green Bag Sew-in. The Woodroffe School Taiko drummers performed their tribal Japanese rhythms in the sunshine outside the Marine Theater. (We were AMAZINGLY lucky with the weather!)
The Wormery attracted lots of attention, and much good gossip was to be had at the Bag Ladies Sew-In!
Since the official launch of Turn Lyme Green last November, with the initial aim of ridding the town of plastic bags, residents and retailers in the Dorset seaside town have shown their overwhelming support for the campaign. Demand for plastic carrier bags has dropped by more than 50 per cent, with the Co-op supermarket in Broad Street now one of seven Co-op stores nationwide that has removed plastic carrier bags from general circulation.
Now, Turn Lyme Green is broadening its approach by embracing home composting, recycling, packaging and waste reduction. Local MP Oliver Letwin has pledged to support Turn Lyme Green and is keen for the group to share its experience with neighbouring towns.
Thanks to the team from WDDC for bringing their recycling stand and a host of other good ideas.
And to these lemons who arrived with their delicious solar powered lemonade, The Electric Lemons from Membury.
