Do you know what my most used phrase this week? Nah.. not that college angst word.. hehe im not a college anymore no.. OK next to hindi ba kayo titigil (referring to the kids: are you not going to stop?) and that would be.. WAG MO NA IPLASTIC.. (don’t put it in a plastic) although I get funny remarks most of the time and concern faces, I am proud to say that I am PLASTIC FREE.
Saturday morning. I went to Pasig wet market. Bought a lot of cute dresses for Sati and some cheap bags for me. Went to 4 different stalls and said no to 4 plastic bags. Yay!
Afternoon, I went to Divisoria for Kuya and Sati’s birthdays giveaways.. went to 9 stores.. but failed to say no to plastic to one store.. the dried fish store.. bought Tuyo, Dangit, Dilis and dried Pusit.. asked the store owner to put some on the nwespaper but the Dilis was already in plastic.. sadness.. so that’s 8 plastics..
Monday morning. Greenhills to check out some place.. and since I’m already in the area, walked my way to GH shopping center. Found some cute Tinker Bell fairies and though I did not brought some shopping bags with me, I managed to say NO to plastic by taking the items out of its packaging and just throwing it inside my bag. Also bought some vitamins (chewable Ceelin, will post about that later) and good thing Mercury Drug understand the phrase NO to PLASTIC. Said no to 2 plastic bags.
Tuesday afternoon. Off to Talipapa (small wet market here in our place).. and though I promised, I again, broke it. Had to use plastic for my fresh fish.. which brought me to thinking, what shall I do when I am going to buy wet goods? Where should I put it?
Wednesday morning. Walked to Talipapa again.. this time, I bought an eco bag and a square reusable plastic ware (stress on the word reusable). I bought half kilo of chicken and asked the vendor to put it on my ware instead of plastic bag. Bought pandesal and some bread.. veggies and banana and all of them are thrown in my shopping bag. said no to 5 plastic bags
Lunch time. was looking for some printing shop for Sati’s tarp and giveaway… went shopping to a thrift shop on the way..bought 12 tops for 400 PhP (what a steal!) and a boots for 350 (another one!) and said NO to 2 plastic bags.
My family are really trying hard to do our part on saving the environment. As we go on everyday,w e are more conscious on bringing our own bag. And though some malls already declared Wednesday as NO plastic day (here in Pasig, Friday is no straw day), I believe everyday should be BRING YOUR OWN BAG day.
I hope with my every week postings of how many plastic bags I said NO to.. you will also be inspired to say the same phrase: MANONG WAG MO NA IPLASTIC.
oh just this week, we were able to say NO to 21 plastic bags! yay!
Lorraine Cinco says
August 18, 2011 at 6:14 amwow! NO to 21 plastic bags 🙂 a good and responsible citizen..I would do that nga..Kasi ndi pumasok sa isip kong “manong, wag munang iplastik” now, I have an idea na… 🙂 thank you 🙂