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Welcome Boomerang Bags Kimbriki

Boomerang Bags started in Australia and now is a global, grassroots movement with the newly created Boomerang Bags – Kimbriki with Tanya Leishman and Marina Barker. Boomerang Bags Kimbriki is a small team of volunteers who are part of the wider Boomerang Bags Northern Beaches groups at Avalon and Manly.

The aim is to connect and empower local communities to tackle plastic pollution at its source by making bags, diverting waste, starting conversations, fostering sustainable behaviour, and having lots of fun!

The answer stared the founders of Boomerang Bags in the face, from the one million plastic bags being used every minute, the 10.46 million tonnes of fabric waste created each year, and the willingness and generosity of people from all fabrics of society to do something about it. Founders created a platform that supports the diversion of post-consumer material (waste) into reusable bags to replace plastic bags and, most importantly, start conversations.

The initiative spread enthusiastically and is now in over 1,100 communities worldwide. Hundreds of thousands of plastic bags have been saved from landfills, and behaviour change went way beyond the bag to other single-use plastics and sustainable living. Not to mention the immeasurable social impact of the conversations, connections, and new friendships created in the process!

All around the world people are finding a reuse for old fabric like sheets and doona covers which were destined for landfill. Tanya recently visited Copenhagen, Denmark and met up with a like-minded sewer, Ingrid. Now Denmark has its first Boomerang Bags community group.

โ€œKnowing that you are a part of an international movement to reduce plastic makes you feel good. ย Itโ€™s solidarity in sustainability. I love connecting with Ingrid from Denmark and others around Australia as we all share our craft and ideas to engage our community,โ€ said Tanya.

Chipping away reducing plastic use and providing fabric bags for community groups and shops is always rewarding. One project we are working on is providing small cloth bags for the Mona Vale PS Crochet Club. Teacher’s Aide Amanda is learning to sew with us up at Boomerang Bags Kimbriki. Together we are making the bags for the kidsโ€™ craft, and they get a lesson on sustainability too!

JOIN – You and our local community can be involved in any or all of this process. Contact Boomerang Bags – Kimbriki – 0425 226 247 or join the Facebook group – Boomerang Bags Northern Beaches Kimbriki

DONATE – If you have a cupboard full of leftover quilting fabric, doona covers, or pillowcases, find and contact your nearest community, and they will gladly give your pre-loved materials a new home and new life!

Tanya Leishman and Marina Barker

Boomerang Bags Kimbriki – Next Working Bee Dates

Sunday 6th August 2023
10am – 3pm at The HUB Kimbriki

Saturday 9th September 2023
10am – 3pm at The HUB Kimbriki