Thursday, January 27, 2011
JUST FOR YOUR INFO
Facts about Plastic Bags
- About 2.5 billion plastic shopping bags are used every year. That’s about 2,500 bags used per family per year.
- Plastic bags thrown away as litter, dirty our public places, rivers and canals, and may even clog up drains, and this would lead to stagnant water and mosquito breeding.
- Plastic bags litter despoils nature trails, beaches and even chokes up mangroves and poses a threat to marine lives.
- If each family uses one less plastic bag a week, Singapore could save more than 50 million bags each year.
- Plastic bags are made from oil, a finite resource. By using reusable bags during our shopping trips, we will use fewer plastic bags and help to conserve earth’s resources.
Heres what we can do :D
- Always take or ask for just enough plastic bags to carry purchases and no more.
- Better still, buy reusable (available at major supermarkets at low prices) and use them during shopping trips.
- Remember to bring your reusable bags when you go shopping.
- Say ‘No’ to plastic bags when buying only a few small items.
- Say ‘No’ to plastic bags when the items are packaged with handles (e.g. toilet rolls, rice packet, etc).
- When you need to have the plastic bag, save it for the next trip or use them as waste bin liners.
- When using a plastic bag as waste liner, fully fill the bag before throwing it away wherever possible.
- Do not throw away excess plastic bags as a trash/waste item. Reuse or recycle them.
- Encourage your family members, relatives, friends and colleagues to do the same.
TSS.
