City Hall is mulling extending its ‘No Plastic on Monday’ campaign to other days of the week to increase the frequency when shoppers are encouraged to bring their own shopping bags.
City Hall Director of Health and Urban Service department, Robert Lipon, said that City Hall said the matter would be discussed in a coming meeting following encouraging response from members of the public and business establishments alike.
He said this to reporters during the launching of the campaign at the Onestop Superstore in Asia City, which has also pledged its 12 outlets around the city to do the same yesterday.
According to Onestop Superstore manager, Alex Tan, the store has seen a reduction of 20 percent in plastic usage since the store adopted the campaign about a month ago.
“Customers have been slowly accepting the campaign since we explained to them through our cashiers and placed notices on our counters,” he said.
The campaign was also launched at Lintas Superstore in Luyang yesterday by City Hall Deputy Director-General (Operations), Joannes Solidau, who said that the campaign can only succeed with the cooperation of retailers and consumers.
“We are not doing this to benefit the retailers or City Hall, but it is for the benefit of the environment and for all,” he said.
Also present at both launchings was Dennis Gan, youth leader of the United Sabah Chinese Community Associations of Kota Kinabalu (Youth Section).
Currently, 11 stores have pledged to the ‘No Plastic on Monday’ campaign with a collective of 36 outlets, including 12 outlets from Onestop Superstore and two from Lintas Superstore that were added yesterday.
The concept of the campaign is not to supply any plastic bags on Mondays unless the customers pay an additional 20 cents for each plastic bag.
The money collected will go the fund of the Environment Action Committee (EAC) which will finance for environmental activities.
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