A note from Nancy Revie, who coordinates our collection of milk bags:
We have dropped off a very LARGE BOX of Crestwicke collected milk bags for Bags to Mats to a lady in Guelph. She sent the following email as thanks.
My thanks go to you and to all of the people who were involved in collecting them. The residents at the Guelph Lake Commons will be glad to use them to make the mats, which I will deliver to the Canadian Food For Children warehouse in Mississauga.
We also had the children at Crestwicke Children’s Church do an activity with the bags which included flattening them; cutting them and making “plarn” (plastic yarn) to be crocheted into sleeping mats.
Moving forward, we will continue to collect milk bags. In order to make this process efficient and most useful to the organization, please follow the instructions below for milk bag drop off at the church.
Turn milk bags inside out and WASH/DRY them thoroughly.
Turn them right side out!
Flatten the milk bags.
Stack them and drop them off on top of the coat racks in the Auditorium foyer.
We only collect the large outside milk bags, not the clear litre bags that hold the milk.
If you have any questions, please contact the office and we’ll put you in touch with Nancy.