Bring Your Own Bag Haywood

07/31/2024

Check out Environmental Action Community's (EAC) latest newsletter!

In This Month's Newsletter: Wrap-up of June Activities News Raffle Update What's Coming Up Volunteer Opportunities Action Alert

04/22/2024

Check out Environmental Action Community's EV Raffle which will help supercharge the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) to build out robust green infrastructure in our community as well as help our small, all-volunteer non-profit expand our reach by professionalizing the organization. https://youtu.be/y-fhPxyoBlY

TO BUY A RAFFLE TICKET, GO TO: www.eacevraffle.org and Thank You!

Only 5000 tickets will be sold. Drawing to be held at 7pm EST on July 13, 2024. Your odds of winning your customizable Rivian R1T (truck) or R1S (SUV) are excellent.

03/13/2024

Winter to Spring

Winter is almost gone & we're ready to Spring into some new things!

03/12/2024

The next Reusable Bag Making Day is Fri, March 15; 9 am - 4 pm. See the Environmental Action Community of WNC website for details

Environmental Action Community of WNC. Our mission is to: Create opportunities to experience the outdoors, respond to climate challenges, and promote a resilient mountain environment.

05/17/2023

Volunteers are still making reusable shopping and wine bags as well as reusable "swiffers," and makeup remover pads all from repurposed materials. Sometimes we give them away, sometimes we ask for donations, and sometimes we sell them as a fundraiser. Sewing days are approximately once a month. BYOBH is a project of the new Environmental Action Community of WNC (EAC), a non-profit whose mission is to, "create opportunities to experience the outdoors, respond to climate challenges, and promote a resilient mountain environment." Check out our website at www.eacwnc.org which is under construction so check back regularly.

Environmental Action Community of WNC. Our mission is to: Create opportunities to experience the outdoors, respond to climate challenges, and promote a resilient mountain environment.

04/04/2023

BYOBH is part of the 3Rs Team of Environmental Action Community of WNC. On Apr 4th at 6:30pm at Grace Church in Waynesville, EAC will be launched at a public gathering featuring Dr. Carl Schreck speaking on, “Climate Change, Hurricanes, and North Carolina: What Can We Expect In Our Mountains” Come join in for this Event to hear Dr. Schreck and see what the EAC Teams are doing!

01/31/2023

BYOBH is still an active project of the former Outdoor Mission Community and WNC Climate Action Coalition. The new, blended non-profit organization is called Environmental Action Community of WNC (EAC). Sat, Feb 4, we will be selling reusable cloth and feed & seed bags as a fund raiser for the new organization. Come over to the Smoky Mountain Event Center, Dogwood Building and support this organization. Stay tuned for the public introduction of EAC to the community sometime in the coming months.

10/18/2022

Since January we've had: twelve Bag-Making Days with two more coming up and seven Bag-Giveaway Days as we seek to reduce and eventually eliminate plastic bags from Haywood County's landscape and waterways. We've given away nearly 1000 homemade bags and some 1400 reusable retailer's bags. People are saving feed & seed sacks for us to be made into reusable shopping bags.

One of our biggest hurdles? Many many people say they have bags in their car or at home and just forgot them. Help us figure out how to solve this dilemma!

08/25/2022

New events this fall and winter! We continue to make reusable bags to give away as we seek to reduce plastic bags in Haywood County's landfills and waterways. Join the BYOBH Fall Kick-Off day, Sept 9th, 9am to 4pm to make reusable bags, enjoy a catered, thank you lunch with others, and hear about what's coming up. PM me your contact info for more details! Feed & seed bags are strung, washed & dried, and cloth bag kits are prepared! With Jan Jacobson and Dwayne Odvody.

06/15/2022

**July is Plastics-Free Month**
With the goal of eliminating single-use plastic bags from Haywood County, WNC Climate Action Coalition and OMC are sponsoring a documentary, The Story of Plastic will be shown at Canton Library, 11 Pennsylvania Ave., Canton, on Tuesday, July 12th, at 6pm. Look for a follow-up event on July 26th with resources about what YOU can do to care for God’s creation.

Others committed to this goal are preparing feed & seed bags for an assembly line, bag-making process in early fall. And we have cloth bag kits made for people who want to sew now. Stay tuned for bag-making and giveaway days coming.

05/19/2022

Thank you all who helped make the Earth Day reusable bag giveaway so successful!

https://smokymountainnews.com/opinion/item/33623-time-to-end-single-use-plastics