THREE THUMBS UP: The Philippines’ Green Bag Project

The Philippines is the second country in SE Asia to call for environment-friendly shopping. It’s promoted by the Philippines’ largest department store company called SM. The green shopping bag is reusable and an excellent substitute to plastic shopping bags that are harming the environment.

The bag is available for FREE upon purchasing 500 Pesos ($9 / 300 Baht / 30 Ringgit) worth of groceries. And a perk of 2 points to your Advantage (? I’m not sure) card whenever you shop and use the bag! So, what are you waiting for? Go to SM, get the bag and be an environment-friendly shopper!

Singapore’s “Bring Your Own Bag Day” proved to be a very successful project with the support of the government and other private agencies.

Although the Green Bag Project is solely promoted by SM for the time being, we hope it would be successful enough to obtain endorsement from the government to encourage the greater public.

Protect our environment. Keep our Southeast Asia green!


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THREE THUMBS UP!: Singapore's BYOBD

BYOBD means "Bring Your Own Bag Day". Isn't it cool? Sweet!

I did some bloghopping last night and I came accross this cute little blog from Singapore authored by two lovebirds called Aidil & Shaz. One particular entry got my attention. This is about Singapore's Bring Your Own Bag day where you go out to market and put everything in your own bag --obviously!*lol* This is cool!

What I mean is, it's a very smart and novel way to campaign for recycling and all! Just imagine how much plastic bags are we going to save if we bring our own bag? Now, why didn't I think of that?-- I'm going to talk to the Minister first thing tomorrow morning! This could be my chance to be fucken famous! LOL.


This was Singapore's response to Earth Day last April 18...Earth Day??? Now, where was I on April 18? Oh shoots! I was blogging!

As stated in the green bag... Singaporeans will bring their own shopping bags every 1st Wednesday of the month. Why not do it "every" Wednesday? In fact, why not everyday? They can do it once a month, they can do it everyday. I'm sure they can manage. Just a thought.


Calling the attention of Mr. Kasem Sanitwong Na Ayutthaya (Thai Minister of Natural Resources and Environment), I'm sure the Singaporeans wouldn't mind if we do a little version of ours of this great, great idea!

And to all my readers in other SE Asian countries, you know what to do. Don't you think it should start somewhere? Like your blog! Just don't forget to thank Aidil & Shaz for the input (just don't bug them so much because they are still in school, ok?) and give due credit to our neighbor Singapore!

Three thumbs up for Singapore's "Bring Your Own Bag Day"!

(Where I got the third "thumb" is up to your imagination. LOL)

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