We welcome Sahara Thagunna, Activist, writer, speaker, and listener, with a message to share. Sahara is an upcycler and maker with a solution to plastic pollution – “What The Bag?”
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About Sahara Thagunna
I’m an activist, writer, speaker and listener. I have a deep passion for the Earth and wish to share my message with others to reconnect people to the planet and ultimately to themselves.
Everything in life is connected and it’s time we start seeing that again. With so many of environmental issues being shrouded in heavy negativity and dominated by a very ‘old patriarchal’ way of thinking, I want to bring a holistic, wholesome and fresh perspective to this subject,which can be very misinterpreted and avoided by the everyday person as a result of these problems feeling to vast or unrelated to day to day life.
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- How South Africa’s own Greta Thunberg, Sahara Thagunna is making her own environmental impact and her influence is growing
About “What the Bag”
Everyday millions of plastic bags are used and thrown away without a second thought… 160 000 plastic bags are used per second and tonnes of plastic waste gets dumped into landfills and oceans every year. Single use items and packaging are some of the biggest threats to the environment, and yet shops and supermarkets still supply plastic bags and people still buy them.
“What the Bag” is a campaign focused on plastic awareness with an emphasis on single use plastic bags. Reusable cloth shopping bags and produce bags are sewn from old, unused or leftover fabric donated by the local community. From fabric cut offs lying in your cupboard, old curtains or sheets, cloth advertising banners from companies and even broken parachutes; all this material that would have otherwise gone to waste is repurposed and turned into beautiful, useful, reusable shopping bags.
More about a solution to plastic pollution “What the Bag” here
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