Bring Your Own Bag Days Campaign
Bring Your Own Bag Days Campaign aims to reduce the usage of plastic bags during shopping activities. The 3R (Reduce-Reuse-Recycle) concept is being applied in this campaign. It hopes to encourage people to practice a lifestyle of using the reusable shopping bags, non-woven, or eco-bags whenever going shopping.
The campaign started in June 2010 with charging an amount of 20 cents for every request of plastic bags on every Monday then; in January 2011 it was expanded to Saturday, Sunday and Monday. The collection will be utilized for Environmental Education and Public Awareness Programme.
Premises involved in the campaign to-date are:-

