A few months back NCCC Mall, the store where we regularly buy our groceries from, started offering their own version of the reusable shopping bag. Its being sold for just P55.00 ($1=P49) and comes in the store’s colors, which is predominantly blue with a dash of yellow. Reusable shopping bags can be used by customers to carry their groceries in instead of the more common method of a plastic bag.
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Was watching the news yesterday evening and saw a feature on the Ecostore in Taguig. The Ecostore carries a wide array of recycled and organic products. The short clip showed some products that would make great gifts for this Christmas season because they help raise awareness on going green and protecting the environment. Not to mention, look fashionably cool while you’re at it.
SM Davao’s Department Store and Grocery will begin using Oxo Biodegradable Plastics (OBP) shopping bags tomorrow. OBP’s are conventional plastics but with an added proprietary mixture that speeds up the breakdown of the chemical structure of the bag. The resultant products of the breakdown are then easily converted by micro-organisms to their food or into carbon dioxide and water.
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The Sweet Life, hosted by Lucy Torres-Gomez and Wilma Doesnt, had a special on Eco Living with segments touching on fashion, health and living. One segment of the show focused on Rajo Laurel’s, pet project of recycled(retaso) bags.
Rajo Laurel is a famous designer from the Philippines. His passion for fashion started at an early age which led him to attend some prestigious design schools abroad in order to develop further his craft. His talent for design has allowed him to bag some very important fashion awards from abroad.
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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].
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According to Victor Agustin’s column, Cocktales, SM Supermarket in the Philippines will soon use reusable polypropylene bags in lieu of the existing plastic shopping bag.
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