A few posts back I quoted the Cocktales Column for their article on SM Supermarket issuing Recyclable bags in lieu of plastic ones. I finally got a first hand look of these bags courtesy of our Google Country Consultant [click on the image to enlarge].
Basically … you get a free recyclable bag for every PhP500 worth of purchases and then whenever you use it when you go grocery shopping, you’ll get extra points in your SM Advantage card [source]
Way to go SM Hypermart! I wonder if they can apply for carbon credit points for this initiative? *snicker* Well even if they don’t the upside of this act are:
- Helps reduce Foreign Oil Consumption by reducing plastic use(yep, plastic comes from oil in case you didn’t know)
- Reduction in operating costs by not having to buy those dreadful plastic bags as part of your consumables
- Reduction in storage space. If I could describe the volume of space that bales of plastic bags must occupy in a supermarkets warehouse. “Towering” would probably be an apt word to describe it.
- No more nightmares of TV news segments featuring children suffocating on a plastic bag with your logo on it *yeah this is too gothic a thought*
Of course the purist environmentalist would insist that the bag itself be made of recyclable materials, but in my book, that’s good of an enough effort from SM Hypermart. I hope other supermarkets would follow suit.
Category: Environment, Fashion
May 6th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
it,s a good gesture that the S.M. super malls applied the new bags which is recyclable becuase to mother earth it helps a lot of things on how to preserve our environment in able us to be a responsible citizen we must act as early as possible.i hope all supermarkets should make alternative ways to lessen the use of plastics.
October 14th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
This is my first time to submit a comment online. I jsut can’t help but express how delighted I am when a friend of mine informed me that SM is trying to do away with those plastic bags and this time they are dead serious about it that they actually started charging customer’s who would like to have their purchases in a plastic bag. Well, they can’t do away with the plastic bags at once but this is great leap for us to become more environment friendly. This is one of those extra charges that I’m glad SM is charging their customers. Way to go SM!