Overview: Green shopping bags are gaining in popularity

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 18 (Reporter Huayi) The birth of plastic bags for about a hundred years has brought great convenience to human society and brought about environmental pollution. As people’s awareness of environmental protection increases, the voice of “no” to plastic bags is becoming stronger and stronger, and shopping bags that are beautiful, convenient, and environmentally friendly are very popular in the United Kingdom and Japan.

According to Japanese media reports, a shopping bag called "I'm not a plastic bag" launched by the UK's Anja Hindmarch brand is very popular in Japan. A shopping mall in Tokyo recently announced the sale of 500 such shopping bags by customer lottery, which attracted 15,000 lottery draws in two days. On some auction sites in Japan, the auction price of this 2,000-yen (1 US dollar for about 117 yen) shopping bag once soared 10 times. Previously, this brand of shopping bags also caused people to line up to buy when it was sold in the UK. On the US e-bay website, this shopping bag has reached a bid price of 100 pounds (a pound is about 2 US dollars).

Of course, such an expensive shopping bag is not affordable for everyone, but there are other ways for environmentalists to deal with environmental-friendly plastic bags: the Singapore government has recently joined with businesses to encourage consumers to bring their own shopping bags or provide them with Reusable eco-friendly shopping bags are also actively supported by consumers. The largest supermarket chain in Kenya also provides customers with sacks. Since July 1, this year, the Ugandan government has banned the production and import of plastic bags under 30 microns in thickness, imposes heavy taxes on plastic bags of other thickness, and promotes the use of traditional materials for local parcels--banana leaves.

Some local governments also actively prohibit the use of plastic bags. In April 2007, Liv Rapids, a Canadian town, began implementing a ban on plastic shopping bags and became the first town in Canada to issue such a ban. In Modem, Devon, a small town in the southwestern United Kingdom, plastic bags have also been completely banned since May of this year. Customers in the town’s shopping malls will find bags that are made from starch and can be naturally degraded, recyclable paper bags, or reused. Cotton sacks.

At the same time, researchers are also actively developing more environmentally friendly alternatives to plastic bags, and all kinds of environmentally friendly packaging materials are expected to continue to enter people's lives.