Hand-made reusable bags are available for shoppers to pick up, use, and return in the middle of Red Square, in a bid to combat the high number of plastic bags used.
Charlotte Manville set up Boomerang Bags, a community-driven initiative where volunteers have made reusable bags using recycled fabric to provide shoppers a sustainable alternative to plastic bags.
"The amount of single-use plastic bags are clogging up landfill and are ending up in the ocean, pretty soon there will be more plastic than fish," she said.
Shoppers can take a Boomerang Bag from the newly created box in Red Square, use it for their shopping, and return it when they have finished using it.
"If you have forgotten a reusable bag that day or don't have one, you can pick it up from a share box, it's a borrow and bring back thing.