Source: Yiwu sourcing agent Author: Yama Date: 2008-01-25
According to the circular of the State Council, starting on June 1,all supermarkets,deparment stores and shops will not give out free plastic bags, and they should clearly mark the price of plastic shopping bags.
Recently, some interviews were made with the principals of supermarkets as well as ordinary consumers in our city about this issue. Most of the consumers worried that shopping may cost them more money in future, and that they cannot easily get into the habit of using"green" shopping bags. In contrast, all the supermarket principals in the city said the policy is necessary and timely, adding charge on the shopping bags needs a transitional period.
An interview was made with He Zhiyan,chief of some relevant department in Yiwu's Trust-Mart supermarket. It is good news for the supermarket and we will encourage the consumers to reduce the use of plastic bags to support this environmental protection policy, said she, who received the notification from the headquarters to ban giveing out free plastic bags on January 9. The Trust-Mart gives out 15,000 plastic bags everyday,which means 40 thousand yuan of expense on this item every month, she added.
In the Trust-Mart supermarket,signs beside cash registers like"save plastic bags and reduce white pollution" were very conspicuous, but cutomers were still carrying things in plastic bags, walking towards the exit.
Trust-Mart principal Le said, the supermarket firmly supports the national policy to restrict the use of plastic shopping bags aroused the discussion of consumers in the city as well.People will surely feel uncomfortable at paying for plastic shopping bags, said Zhou, a customer in the supermarket, adding that it is inconvenient to carry "green" shopping bags, for in most cases she just buys something on the way to somewhere else.In the opinion of most interviewees,it is advisable to reduce white pollution, but in view of the inconvenience it may bring about in taking shopping bags by oneself, they may probably but shopping bags in the supermarket.
In the near futrue, some cheap and"green" shopping bags well be on sale in the supermarket, and customers will e called on to reduce the use of plastic bags and pay more attention to environmental protection, said all the principlals of large supermarkets in the city.
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