Bring Your Own Shopping Bag

Like last year, the TV is chirping the 'Saving Gaia' movement... again.... it will run this campaign on and on again for the whole month... I'm not against it but I'm not going to 100% support it. Why? Because it seems the major companies are cashing on their cash register in the name of the 'Saving Gaia' slogan. One of those enforcements is enforcing this initiatives called 'Bring your own shopping bag.' They're thinking on enforcing this every week. So, if you forgot to bring your own BIG BAG to supermarket, you HAVE TO PAY FOR THE LOUSY PLASTIC BAG FOR 10c EACH OR (even better) YOU CAN PURCHASE THEIR HOUSE BRAND (LOUSY) 'REUSABLE BAG.' The key word here is PAY. If you really support this 'Saving Gaia', eco friendly, green green or whatever they call it, you'll GIVEAWAY those bags FOR FREE, not burdening the customer with 10c plastic bags or 4$ reusable bags. I like supermarket plastic bags. It's not that i just waste those plastic bags. I reuse it to dump my garbages. Those garbage people will go mad if people throw their house garbage without the plastic bag. And now you need to buy those bag just for throwing your garbage (those black garbage bags next to the aluminum foil aisle)? Hmmm... You just ringing the cash to those supermarkets.

And oo, even better, IKEA's been enforcing the same thing too since last year. So, they expect the customer buy their stuffs (IKEA stuffs are not small), which definitely will fit at least 2 big IKEA plastic bags and you have to pay those shitty plastic bags (they are very thin now, not sturdy like the good old days)? Or another option is that you buy their yellow beanbag for 4 (can't remember exactly how much coz too pissed off)? Definitely not cheap. And definitely you won't go to IKEA bringing 10 reusable bags. The idea just doesn't make sense, even you drive your own car to IKEA. Eco friendly? Nooo, it's just another way to make money but disguise it as the global citizen initiatives.

And those people who buy this idea are just simply people who want to be deemed as 'oooo this person is eco-conscious.' If you're such a person, you'll go to your office nude (fabrics are made from synthetic materials now), your house will only have wood furniture -- oo wait a minute, wood furniture kill trees. No plastic, no TV, no PSP (your dearest latest tech gadgets), and off course, NO AIRCON. Wellcome back to the stone age :). So, don't talk so big about eco-friendly, start from small things etc. One people can make a difference? Hmm.... It's not that easy, dude, wake up, not all people have the same ideals as you, so you're gonna force your idea? What happen to the free speech, democratic ideals that also been preached for past centuries?