Every time I hear or read that a particular city or state is planning to ban use of plastic bags, it only sounds more of a fashion statement than a reality, because plastics have become an integral part of life. Banning carry bags while shopping is just a part of the problem solution, but not THE solution.
"Alandur Municipality" is supposed to have issued a directive to all shops not to provide carry bags and we can see the notice stuck at the shops. But still, all shops give away when customers ask for it - people are also idiots; why can't they just bring along a bag and try to reuse?
Every item in super market shelves comes in a sealed plastic container e.g. kitchen groceries, milk packets, oil packets, baby diapers to name a few. Is there any other form in which this can be made available? Every cracker sold for Deepavali comes in a plastic wrapper.
Even if we start re-using carry bags for shopping, how about these bags? These are countless in number if we take the number of shops that sells these items. I am not sure about hard items such as bucket, mug and other household items made from plastic. If they are reused in some form, it is okay at least.
Until we find a solution for stopping the use of plastics in all the forms, "Banning Plastic" can only be on paper. It should rather titled "Reduce plastic usage".
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I am with you. It should be named "Reduce plastic usage". But deftly the efforts to reduce should continue rathen than saying it is not feasible. I recently came to know that, in Wipro there is a shop which sells wipro made consumer products and the shop give away the items in a cloth bag (not the typical cloth bag which we use). It was very a nice bag which looks more like a white color plastic bag. Ppl should start using these kind of alternatives. Also people should be educated in a more aggressive way on the effects of using plastic rather than just saying do not use plastic.
Deftly we are long way to go before saying plastic is banned.
-Yogesh
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