Let's go green they say. The Hulk is not happy.
Recently.. ok, maybe not so recently.. state governments and city councils around Malaysia have been promoting against the use of plastic bags and encouraging supermarkets and grocery stores to stop handing plastic bags for free to customers. A good gesture towards protecting the environmental? Bullshit, i say!
The environment doesn't care if you're gonna use plastic bags or not. What about reducing fossil fuel consumption? Open burning? Forrest fires? Plastic bags only cause problems when not disposed of properly and when they end in the sea, consumed by sea creatures who later mutate to become giant flesh eating amphibous zombies. Ok, maybe not. But if we have proper landfills, the whole issue of disposing and storing non biodegradable materials shouldn't arise.
Personally, I think its a conspiracy between supermarket owners to reduce costs and increase profits. Previously they gave out plastic bags for free. Now, they charge for them. They also don't need to purchase as many plastic bags as before because their turnover rates should be lower. But is that reflected in a decrease in the price of their goods?
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