No plastic day – this has been in practice in the state of Selangor for some time. As much as I try to practise recycling, I do find it hard sometimes. Thus I try not to shop on Saturday.
Yesterday, well I simply forgot it was Saturday! After sending one of my teenagers for her get-together with her friends in Putrajaya, I had a long peaceful drive back into the city.
So peaceful it was that I decided to blast my radio. My teenagers would find this hard to believe but it was true, I was blasting my radio and singing away on top of my lungs. It felt good!
At the last minute instead of turning home, I decided to go grocery shopping. I bought lots of stuff – the trolley was full and threatened to spill over. Reaching the payment counter, I realized to my horror it was a Saturday!!!! No plastic bag day!!!!!
But I am not going to put all those things back! After paying and getting to my car, I was so relieved to find in my car trunk (which has a lot of “just-in-case” items) lots of recycling bags that my teenagers insisted that I try to use.
Packing the items into these recyclable bags really felt good! It would have taken about 15 plastic bags but I managed to get in all into just 5 big recycling bags! And the best part is – these bags can be reused!!! Yes, I am happy using recyclable bags and will use them again.
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