Dah habis mood weekend ker?
Care to read about what we did last Sunday?
MNS Pahang and BASF-Petronas organised a World Environmental Day Celebration with the tagline of A Billion Acts of Green. Venue was at Tapak Pasar Tani Baru, behind the Malay Town tuh, dekat dengan Seri Dagangan Busines Centre new phase. Programme started at 8:30am. About 80 volunteers from BASF-Petronas and MNS turned up to do the distribution.
kiddos with the banner...
What did we do this time round? We gave away 1000 pieces of non-woven shopping bag to the people at Pasar Tani and at the same time, collected back as much plastic bag as we can. We also advocated the usage of the reusable shopping bags instead of the plastic bags that are currently given out at Pasar Tani.
Husna as a green bag model in her pink outfit...
advocating the usage of reusable bags instead of plastic bags...
yours truly, the bag lady..... selirat dgn platik beg yg dikutip dari pengunjung-pengunjung Pasar Tani
Because, In a landfill, plastic bags take up to 1,000 years to degrade. As litter, they breakdown into tiny bits, contaminating our soil and water.
When plastic bags break down, small plastic particles can pose threats to marine life and contaminate the food web. A 2001 paper by Japanese researchers reported that plastic debris acts like a sponge for toxic chemicals, soaking up a million fold greater concentration of such deadly compounds as PCBs and DDE (a breakdown product of the notorious insecticide DDT), than the surrounding seawater. These turn into toxic gut bombs for marine animals which frequently mistake these bits for food.
Hundreds of thousands of sea turtles, whales and other marine mammals die every year from eating discarded plastic bags mistaken for food. Turtles think the bags are jellyfish, their primary food source. Once swallowed, plastic bags choke animals or block their intestines, leading to an agonizing death
gini hahhhh turtles tu bila termakan plastik beg....
The plastic bags that are not put in the waste basket end up as litter. Litter is a huge burden on society. Litter is so pervasive in some parts of the world that in South Africa plastic bags are called its national flower. In China plastic bags cover the streets and are known as white pollution. Plastic bags cover the streets, clog drains and gutters, and are even linked to diseases!
plastic bags in landfill are major environmental problem!
So, these coming days, do your part as Earth citizens and do say NO to plastic bags. Here's a manual on how to do so.....
7 verses:
Aunty Ahan,
Adalah kat satu supermarket ni, Mama kita ambik green bag bubuh dlm trolley, nanti nak bayar sekali dgn grocery kan? Then, bila sampai kat check-out counter, itu cashier bubuh the green bag dlm PLASTIC BAG!!! Adakah???? purrr....meow!
Good job, Ahan and the Pahang MNS team! I would have preferred a more durable and washable bag than a non-woven bag, but this is a good start! I hope lots of consumers pledged to reduce usage of plastic bags. I like the poster at the end of the entry -- very useful! Let's include it in the next issue of Pencinta Alam.
CiS,
itu lah mentaliti cashier kita kat supermarket! Even on Saturdays, they just assume that we do not have our own bags, and proceed to put barang2 in plastic bag and charge us 20cents!
CO78,
I too would prefer a cloth sack kinda bag, but when we scouted around its quite pricey dear and our sponsor would not hear of a budget add on! So for starters, we made do with this!
Thank you banyyok for making people aware of "danger" of plastic bags.. and educating the public on the need to be "green' :)
Ayoh Wan,
Creating awarenes ni mcm fardhu kifayah lah I rasa! Someone has got to do it, or the rest will be berdosa sama.
The country should have the will to stop this non biodegradable plastic as it is extremely bad on the environment. Myanmar used to remain using the banana leaves and papers to wrap things, so they didn't have this kind of pollution. I wonder if they have succumbed to the same ills as we are facing.
When I 1st came to Miri, it took me some time to get used to carrying my own bag. Shops here take this "no plastic bag every day" thing very seriously. Well, at least, the ones I frequent la... So it was common in our early months here to see me lugging loose items (after having stuffed my handbag semuat2 boleh) to the car. Nobody told me that I could request for a plastic bag and pay for it! Anywho, it has now become a habit of mine to store those cloth bags in my car for those unplanned shopping stops for bread, fruits etc.
My point here is, sometimes we have to force people to pick up the habit. "No plastic bag day" for just 1 day a week won't cut it. Kena buat hari2... eventually, people will get used to it and stop complaining.
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