Both science and statistics would tell us that a hundred million plastic bags a week which goes to landfill will take about fifteen or a thousand years before it gets totally broken down and become part of the earth. With this comes a new worldwide movement to save the planet. This was initiated by Australians inhabiting the Coles Bay area in Tasmania when they successfully debarred the use of plastic bags in all of their retail stores. In the first 12 months, Coles Bay has bunged up the utilization of about 350,000 plastic bags. And thus the birth of the Bring Your Own Bag – Australia movement or commonly known as BYOB-Australia.
So why BYOB while going out on a shopping spree or a quick stop to a convenience store? Wouldn’t that be too inconvenient to be bringing your own bag while you were hoping to enjoy the day light and slightly free? We take our own bags with us because this is our personal contribution in making a positive impact on the environment. And a very light fold-able bag for your purchases won’t really take up so much space or weight. Imagine how this small bag can help greatly in making our world a better and greener place for living!
According to studies, the regular family of four uses up to a thousand of plastic check-out bags annually and 80% of this comes from the grocery store. That’s just for one family shopping at the grocery store for, say, five to ten times a month. Yes, you can do the math and once you’re done doing that you can take a look at your surrounding and you will find out that there are a lot other places and retail stores where BYOB can be used and utilization of plastic bags can be reduced
Bring Your Own Bags or BYOB – Australia is a branded and reusable bag program that is designed to help the environment by minimizing plastic bag use. This program not only brings both the retailer and consumer but also the whole of the community together for one cause and that is to improve the earth by religiously supporting a very important cause such as this.
The bags are available for sale by retailers in a wide array of fresh and bright colours perfectly designed for customer appeal. Each of these bags can hold up an equivalent of 3 plastic bags giving you a lesser burden to carry and not only that, you can simply wash them every now and then to make them clean enough to last longer.
What are we waiting for? Let’s follow Australia’s lead and be inspired by the fact that as of date there are already twelve towns Australia that are plastic-bag free! Ireland is second to Australia with this type of movement.