Hao Tian Crafts CO., LTD.

By the end of 2012, hypermarkets and supermarkets operating across the UAE were expected to replace plastic bags with environment friendly bags or paper for carrying grocery items.
More than half the year has passed and it is rather unfortunate that most of the supermarkets still continue to use plastic bags. We are all aware of the fact that plastic bags are extremely harmful to the environment because they are non-biodegradable. The shift from plastic bags to eco-friendly grocery bags will be a great initiative and should have been implemented a long time ago in the UAE. Most Western countries have already reduced their reliance on plastic bags and some have even completely replaced them with jute bags. These jute bags are quite cheap but most customers prefer to use plastic bags at the counter instead of spending an extra sum on buying them.

To promote the use of environmental-friendly shopping bags, supermarkets and hypermarkets should either provide their customers with free jute or paper bags, or should just remove all plastic bags from the counter.