There’s a plastic bag ban in most shops in Hong Kong - if you need a plastic bag, you have to pay 60 cents. It’s definitely a good attempt to reduce plastic waste.
HOWEVER.
I recently watched a documentary on “reusable bags”. Since the ban has been implemented, many citizens have complained and in an effort to ease public rage, many shops now give out “reusable bags” upon purchase. Seems like a great solution. The problem though, is that in an average household, there is about 80 of these “reusable bags”. The sad thing is that these shops uses the most cost-effective bags which are made out of plastic pellets also - and the worst thing is that they are not durable enough to be used more than few times. So they break and people throw them away. Which defies the purpose of having a reusable bag, really.
So that’s my irony-of-the-day post for you all.
I know I’ve been a little MIA lately and that’s because I’ve been stuck at home either packing or studying, so I haven’t been out anywhere, nor have any interesting insights to share. (My plastic/resuable bag was inspired by my trip to the supermarket today HA).
No comments:
Post a Comment