Bring Your Own Bag

Going to the shop, supermarket, store or `where-so-ever' you do your shopping is not a new phenomenon or recent practice. We can see from the advertising of the 1800s how popular and competitive the retail trade was. Barbados had so many shops that it could have borrowed Napolean's phrase used of England that it was “a Nation of shopkeepers.”

What is different about yesterday's shopping methods and todays? Many areas of practice have undergone significant change, some for the better, some unfortunately for the worse.

Plastic bags are now so overused in the shopping exercise that a serious problem is now being created with the sheer volume of plastic bags. We can solve this problem if we take two easy steps. First, everyone must use less plastic bags. Secondly, please BRING YOUR OWN BAG when you go shopping.

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