Taking advantage of re-usable cloth bags
My wife and I are frequent customers of malls and supermarkets and for quite some time of doing our shopping of grocery items, we found out that we have accumulated almost a sack full of plastic bags of different colors and sizes.
I was about to throw them away but then I remember that these plastics are not biodegradable and will continue to be part of the landfill for decades to count before they completely vanish.
We are now left to re-use them and avoid discarding them as part of our own participation in protecting what’s left of the environment.
And to further lessen the continuous pile up of plastic bags inside our home, we decided to purchase cloth bags which we can use when we do our groceries almost every week.
Most retail establishments and supermarkets offer them at a reasonable price and what’s good about it is that some grocers even offer points in using environment friendly containers when you shop at their store.
Take for example SM’s Supermarket and Hypermarket. Bringing your own recyclable cloth bags when you do your groceries gives additional points to your “advantage cards” if you have one. For a few weeks of doing my shopping, I save the environment while I unknowingly earned a lot of points on my privilege card.
For just a little amount you can help save the environment. I bought 3 quality cloth bags for less than a hundred pesos. This way I’ll not have to worry about finding ways to properly dump or reuse plastic bags.
I hope there will come a time that cloth bags will no longer be purchased so everyone can participate in the ecological cause. Purchasing a recyclable shopping bag still restricts most of our shoppers. Why pay for another bag when you can get one for free? Moreover, a discount can be a good incentive for people who would bring their own containers when they shop at a particular store.
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