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I think that in Malaysia, it is relatively convenient for consumers not to be given plastic bags. For example, Giant hypermarket always has their carpark close to exits where you can just reload your merchandise back into the trolley and wheel it to your car. (Majority of us drives, dont we.) PLUS, hypermarkets do not charge for the use of trolleys which means that we do not need to return it to specified locations and we can just chuck your trolley aside when we load our merchandise into our car boot.

I think government should start by implementing "Green days" where plastic bags will not be given for free and encourage people to bring their own shopping bags. Slowly. the government can educate citizens on the Reduce principle in the 3Rs (Reduce, reuse, recycle)

However, we still need plastic bags for our trash. Thus, charging for plastic bags results in a reduce in supply of plastic bags in households and may create other problems.

Much is required to be done before the tax is finally implemented. Government must ensure that citizens understand WHY and HOW they can practise 3Rs. Follwed by implementing this slowly such as giving plastic bags only on request or NOT giving on certain designated days.