Thursday, January 27, 2011
eco friendly NTUC
Hey all! (:
Do you know of any companies who are involved in conserving or recycling plastics?
Here's one example: NTUC FairPrice.
I'm sure all of you have heard of this company. Now let me introduce to you some of the green schemes they have used to save our earth.
"Bring your own bag"
You should know about this by now. FairPrice encourages us to bring our own bag every wednesday of the start of the month. If you've forgotten to bring your own bag on that day, then they will have a surcharge of $0.10 for every bag. The money collected will be donated to charity.
"Crush it, not chuck it"
Have you been to the NTUC of city square mall, ang mo kio hub and marine parade?
If you have, you might have noticed that there's some sort of recycling vending machine which you can deposit your empty bottle or can and you will have a receipt whereby there's a point system.
like for every bottle which you recycled, you acheive one point and you can accumulate them and get a voucher in return.
If you have not seen it, here's are some pictures to illustrate it to you:
see that last vending machine with the word recycling?
there's a hole which you can insert your empty bottle as mentioned earlier, and it will reprocess the plastic or something.
cool eh?
sorry that it is blurred, just wanted to show another picture of it so you get a better idea of what i'm talking about. it's the last picture which depicts what i was trying to say as well.
this was the receipt with the points system that i was saying previously. see that "1 Pts"?
If you have the time, i strongly recommend you to check out the NTUC FairPrice at ctiy square mall.
It is a new mall which was established not long ago, and it is their first eco-friendly supermarket. It has a really nice environment, and it offers over 400 biodegradable and environmentally friendly products. Other than that, they've got special check out lanes for customers who brought their own shopping bags.
sources: http://www.fairprice.com.sg/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/PressReleaseDisplayView?langId=-1&storeId=90001&catalogId=10053&actionFlag=T&Corporate=Y&pressReleaseId=22501
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1023942/1/.html
Do you know of any companies who are involved in conserving or recycling plastics?
Here's one example: NTUC FairPrice.
I'm sure all of you have heard of this company. Now let me introduce to you some of the green schemes they have used to save our earth.
"Bring your own bag"
You should know about this by now. FairPrice encourages us to bring our own bag every wednesday of the start of the month. If you've forgotten to bring your own bag on that day, then they will have a surcharge of $0.10 for every bag. The money collected will be donated to charity.
"Crush it, not chuck it"
Have you been to the NTUC of city square mall, ang mo kio hub and marine parade?
If you have, you might have noticed that there's some sort of recycling vending machine which you can deposit your empty bottle or can and you will have a receipt whereby there's a point system.
like for every bottle which you recycled, you acheive one point and you can accumulate them and get a voucher in return.
If you have not seen it, here's are some pictures to illustrate it to you:
see that last vending machine with the word recycling?
there's a hole which you can insert your empty bottle as mentioned earlier, and it will reprocess the plastic or something.
cool eh?
sorry that it is blurred, just wanted to show another picture of it so you get a better idea of what i'm talking about. it's the last picture which depicts what i was trying to say as well.
this was the receipt with the points system that i was saying previously. see that "1 Pts"?
If you have the time, i strongly recommend you to check out the NTUC FairPrice at ctiy square mall.
It is a new mall which was established not long ago, and it is their first eco-friendly supermarket. It has a really nice environment, and it offers over 400 biodegradable and environmentally friendly products. Other than that, they've got special check out lanes for customers who brought their own shopping bags.
For more green initiatives that NTUC have participated, you might like to check this out: http://www.fairprice.com.sg/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/PressReleaseDisplayView?langId=-1&storeId=90001&catalogId=10053&actionFlag=T&Corporate=Y&pressReleaseId=22501
sources: http://www.fairprice.com.sg/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/PressReleaseDisplayView?langId=-1&storeId=90001&catalogId=10053&actionFlag=T&Corporate=Y&pressReleaseId=22501
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1023942/1/.html
CJL (:
