Well, that's the slogan at one of the shopping complex that I went to the other day and the irony is they printed this on the plastic bag! (I hope it's biodegradable)..
In fact recently hubby and I have started this exercise for our weekly marketing in the wet market. We invested in a trolley and recycle our existing containers. We were not completely plastic bag free during the first two visits but we did significantly reduce the use of plastic bag. Let's do a simple calculation, if we manage to cut the use of plastic bag by 20 per week, in a year we cut 1040 and in 10 years we cut 10400 pieces of plastic bags and multiply it by 10 households we can say NO to 104,000 pieces of plastic bags...
Last week was a better attempt, I use containers for the meat and tauhu and I brought along a big plastic bag for the vegetables which I intend to recycle it. The sellers were quite happy with my approach and besides receiving some stares from onlookers, hubby and I were proud with our little effort to save the environement. I hope we will be able to influence the rest to do the same as time goes by.
Australian government is phasing off the use of plastic bag and I personally think its a brave effort, I hope Malaysian government will so something soon...
2 comments:
I'll observed how Australian ppl practice this. Hubby & I are flying off to Australia this coming Thursday. :)
I try the practice many years back, even though I m still very much depend on plastic back, but now day I consume much more lesser than before.
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