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As Plastic Bag Ban Hits Thailand, Consumers Adapt With Variety of Household Carrying Items
Baskets, sacks, suitcases, wheelbarrows, T-shirts and more
The "innovation" that we see coming out of the world's top three economies--the U.S., China and Japan, in that order--are often technology-based, and of dubious value. (At the currently-running CES, you can see a summonable robot whose sole function is to bring you toilet paper if you're on the bowl and have run out.) Meanwhile we're seeing effective, ecological-minded steps being enacted by so-called poor countries. For instance Thailand, ranked 26th in GDP, has supermarkets that have started wrapping produce in banana leaves rather than plastic.
Now that country is taking another massive step towards the reduction of single-use plastic, with a newly-enacted plastic bag ban. Major stores are now barred from using them, with smaller shops expected to comply by 2021. As a result, Thai consumers are using all manner of household objects to carry home groceries and such:
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Image credit: It's hard to decide which is my favorite, but I feel that the T-shirt guy should get a special mention.
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Yet, almost every single product purchased is wrapped in some kind of plastic that probably won't be recycled. All smoke and mirrors.
I was thinking the same thing, imagine if we banned soda and water and drinks in plastic bottles here in the west?? how much healthier everyone would be! Mind blown!
The soda / water is indefensible, but plastics do reduce spoilage of food by an enormous factor. It's way better to deal with the plastic than needing to grow 2 x more food to combat spoilage.
Yeah, if you can't implement a complete solution in one fell swoop then you just shouldn't even try. Extremely sound reasoning.
Necessity is the mother of invention. I can't imagine buying a wheel barrel full of anything from 7-11 though!
this reminds me of those hilariously specific Halloween costumes.