Monday, August 9, 2010
Plastic Bag!
The ban on plastic bags. I now proudly say that Rajasthan is a plastic free state, and when I say this, I myself can't believe that it is being followed, but it's true. Before August 1 this year, everyone was wondering if this time too, the ban would be like other attempts of the government, just in the papers. I wondered too. But it was a pleasure to start noticing changes in small towns like Pilani itself. The places where plastic bags seemed like an absolute necessity, have also found newer methods. To cite an example: groceries. I went to the grocery section of a departmental store and saw that they had done away with all the separate plastic bags for each variety of vegetable. Now they had baskets which had to be used up to billing and then the customers had to oblige by taking their new belongings in their own shopping bags. Winds of Change.
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Hi Ankita,
Good to read the recent changes brought about since August 1.
Could you kindly elaborate - in what was are small shops/ big retail outlets coping.... I mean how are they facilitating the sales of goods.
And as for customers - If not for plastic bags what are preferring to bring along - Cotton or jute?
Your response would help.
Thanks!
Hi,
Talking about retail outlets, most of them have started providing cloth/jute bags to customers for a nominal charge of Rs. 5 or so. At other places like Big Bazaar, where they don't charge for the bags, they have made cloth bags out of cheap cloth and are giving them out to customers instead of the plastic bags they earlier used to offer. Even paper bags have gained popularity at places like sweet shops and branded outlets
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