Comments on: It’s cool to be green nowadays http://notebook.bwong.net/2008/06/30/its-cool-to-be-green-nowadays/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:48:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Eric Garrido » Behavioral change. http://notebook.bwong.net/2008/06/30/its-cool-to-be-green-nowadays/#comment-85 Eric Garrido » Behavioral change. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:04:31 +0000 http://notebook.bwong.net/?p=46#comment-85 [...] From bennywong: I don’t really see any reason not to start charging for plastic bags. Well, maybe I do. It’d be supremely inconvenient for consumers, but for places like super markets where your purpose of going is to buy groceries, it won’t be hard to bring a couple of canvas bags with you. [...] [...] From bennywong: I don’t really see any reason not to start charging for plastic bags. Well, maybe I do. It’d be supremely inconvenient for consumers, but for places like super markets where your purpose of going is to buy groceries, it won’t be hard to bring a couple of canvas bags with you. [...]

]]> By: Jeff http://notebook.bwong.net/2008/06/30/its-cool-to-be-green-nowadays/#comment-84 Jeff Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:18:39 +0000 http://notebook.bwong.net/?p=46#comment-84 Yay! Taiwan did this *way* before other countries, good for them! It's a national regulation that requires retailers to charge for it, it's not the stores taking any initiative. This is my guess as to why you may have noticed that you can't get bubble tea or go to the night markets without ending up with lots of plastic bags - they have no enforcement mechanism for the "small businesses". 要袋子嗎？ Yay! Taiwan did this *way* before other countries, good for them! It’s a national regulation that requires retailers to charge for it, it’s not the stores taking any initiative. This is my guess as to why you may have noticed that you can’t get bubble tea or go to the night markets without ending up with lots of plastic bags - they have no enforcement mechanism for the “small businesses”.

要袋子嗎？

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