My name is Christina Brown and I’m the convener of the Banchory bags Campaign.

I was born and grew up in Australia, but since marrying an English engineer I have lived in many different countries all around the world. However, I had Scottish grandparents and fell in love with the countryside when I arrived in Aberdeen in 1991. In 1995 my husband and I decided to make our permanent home in Banchory.

When I looked out of my kitchen window for years and years I could see a plastic bag flying like a flag at the top of one of my neighbour’s trees. It has now gone, but I know it has not truly gone because it will take hundreds of years for it to decompose into even tiny pieces of plastic.

The Modbury plastic bag free campaign was really inspirational and I thought:

‘Wouldn’t it be wonderful if someone did that for Banchory’.

I even offered to help several people who were talking about it; but, when nothing happened, I decided to give it a go myself…… and here I am!