If you are buying vegetables from the market, you must carry your own bag. It can be of paper, cloth or plastic. But you must have it on you, unless you are a regular customer, and then the vendor will give you a carry bag that he will conjure up from the depths of the undercover 'galla'.
The quick thinking startup is that of stitching cloth bags and setting up shop at strategic places, grocery stores, markets, etc. Dorabjee strores in Pune sells cloth bags with their logo, for forty rupees each, Reliance stores sell cloth bags with their logo for rupees forty and ninety each, Nature's Basket sells cloth bags with their logo for rupees ninety each. So many shops have started this new product line, with something that has a timeless shelf life and excellent demand.
Numerous establishments pack the products into paper bags with handles styled out of cords. But these are viable only for light weight products, otherwise the customer has to carry the bag with both hands, one supporting the filled bag from below, otherwise the contents will soon be scattered through the paper and onto the ground. Another invention is a 'bio green' bag, made of vegetable starch pellets and is completely bio degradable. But that does not support large and heavy products that have to be carried from the sales' point to the home or place of re-distribution. The large blue plastic bags are the most popular ones and are still used, and reused. Crawford market is rife with 'plastic' bags. Black garbage bags are also sold freely, whether they are bio degradable has to be taken at face value, on the word of the vendors.
The talcum powders, shampoos, conditioners, hand wash liquids, shaving creams, are sold in plastic containers. The refill packs of these are also sold in plastic bags. Chocolate wrappers, snack wrappers, are all a type of plastic material. Innumerable toys are manufactured with a type of plastic. Innumerable footwear is made of plastic. Raincoats, childrens' water bottles and snack boxes, are all made of plastic. School books and school calendars are coated with plastic covers. Everytime we write, we use a pen made of plastic. Travel around the city and you will see blue plastic sheets used to cover roofs in so many places. All electrical wires are coated in plastic, it is a bad conductor of electricity, so it is quite indispensable. Plastic is almost indispensable, and instead of banning its use, attention should be paid to recycle it effectively.
The worst culprits are the large cardboard chocolate gift boxes, mainly by Cadbury, which pack a variety of their products into moulded plastic containers and then pack these into a cardboard box. The mobile phones which are packed with moulded plastic, to keep the product safe, are also environmental pollutants. The thick, transparent, plastic strip curtains used to enclose shop entrances with AC installed. Every toothbrush, most combs, goggles, are plastic. Walk into any toy shop and you will see mostly plastic products. The bucket and mug in my bathroom is plastic. The shower curtains and the pipes that connect the washing machine to the tap and the outlet, are plastic. My Adhaar card, pan card, debit and credit card are all plastic coated. Every photograph is on plastic paper, every roll binding is of plastic.
Plastic is a wonderful invention and it should be used and then recycled correctly.
The quick thinking startup is that of stitching cloth bags and setting up shop at strategic places, grocery stores, markets, etc. Dorabjee strores in Pune sells cloth bags with their logo, for forty rupees each, Reliance stores sell cloth bags with their logo for rupees forty and ninety each, Nature's Basket sells cloth bags with their logo for rupees ninety each. So many shops have started this new product line, with something that has a timeless shelf life and excellent demand.
Numerous establishments pack the products into paper bags with handles styled out of cords. But these are viable only for light weight products, otherwise the customer has to carry the bag with both hands, one supporting the filled bag from below, otherwise the contents will soon be scattered through the paper and onto the ground. Another invention is a 'bio green' bag, made of vegetable starch pellets and is completely bio degradable. But that does not support large and heavy products that have to be carried from the sales' point to the home or place of re-distribution. The large blue plastic bags are the most popular ones and are still used, and reused. Crawford market is rife with 'plastic' bags. Black garbage bags are also sold freely, whether they are bio degradable has to be taken at face value, on the word of the vendors.
The talcum powders, shampoos, conditioners, hand wash liquids, shaving creams, are sold in plastic containers. The refill packs of these are also sold in plastic bags. Chocolate wrappers, snack wrappers, are all a type of plastic material. Innumerable toys are manufactured with a type of plastic. Innumerable footwear is made of plastic. Raincoats, childrens' water bottles and snack boxes, are all made of plastic. School books and school calendars are coated with plastic covers. Everytime we write, we use a pen made of plastic. Travel around the city and you will see blue plastic sheets used to cover roofs in so many places. All electrical wires are coated in plastic, it is a bad conductor of electricity, so it is quite indispensable. Plastic is almost indispensable, and instead of banning its use, attention should be paid to recycle it effectively.
The worst culprits are the large cardboard chocolate gift boxes, mainly by Cadbury, which pack a variety of their products into moulded plastic containers and then pack these into a cardboard box. The mobile phones which are packed with moulded plastic, to keep the product safe, are also environmental pollutants. The thick, transparent, plastic strip curtains used to enclose shop entrances with AC installed. Every toothbrush, most combs, goggles, are plastic. Walk into any toy shop and you will see mostly plastic products. The bucket and mug in my bathroom is plastic. The shower curtains and the pipes that connect the washing machine to the tap and the outlet, are plastic. My Adhaar card, pan card, debit and credit card are all plastic coated. Every photograph is on plastic paper, every roll binding is of plastic.
Plastic is a wonderful invention and it should be used and then recycled correctly.
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