Recycling My Axx
For the past two three years, there has been a trend of purchasing a canvas-cloth shopping bags in Japan, in order to reduce number of plastic bags handed out from the retail. People call them as Mai-Baggu, which is literally meaning my bag.
While such a superficial excuse goes around to encourage us to buy another bag, there’s a complete eco system we can find here in the market of Bangalore. Vegetables are brought in with these bags made out of shredded vinyl. Once emptied, they are folded and put together for the next use. It shows that what we need is some kind of a standards to define the specification of the bags so any bag will function the same manner. Perhaps it is also about abandoning your ownership towards the bag. Which lets you to settle with any of the bags you can have in your hand.
Having that in mind, perhaps the Japanese should think whether doing this Mai-Baggu campaign really makes sense. If it does not, then the next thing that needs considering is are we ready to sacrifice the sense ownership in the name of sustainability.
