FRANKLY I have serious reservations with the idea of outlawing plastic bags in grocery stores. First reusable bags cost around P35 each. Second, paying P3 for a free plastic bag simply rubs the poor the wrong way, and adds more income to the retailers. In a poor country like ours, a cost of P105 for reusable bags can bring around three kilos of rice on a poor man’s table. Instead of keeping this money with poor, the idea adds more income to the rich retailers. Another thing... [ Read more. ] This apprears in Sun.Star Cebu newspaper on 01 December 2010.
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