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Singapore:
plastic bags
efforts to reduce use of plastic bags, issues, discussions
see also green energy, reduce,
reuse and recycle
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In
defence of plastic bags By Megan Lane
BBC 1 Nov 07
New York May Join Crackdown on Plastic
Bags
Story by Edith Honan PlanetArk 31 Oct 07
Discarded plastic bags and other debris
threaten marine life, experts say
Kathryn Young Canada West News Service 8 Sep 07
Africa Wages War on Scourge of Plastic
Bags
Andrew Cawthorne Yahoo News 21 Aug 07
Launch of "I'm Not a Plastic Bag" at
Ngee Ann City cancelled Channel NewsAsia 24 Jul 07
Singaporeans going green following
Bring Your Own Bag drive Channel NewsAsia 3 Jul 07
For environment's sake, use biodegradable
bags
Letter from Goh Kian Huat Today Online 25 Jun 07
Sad death of whale spurs call to tighten
up on litter
Neil Riddell Shetland Today 15 Jun 07
Plastic from Asia blights Hawaii's
beaches
By Matt Wells BBC News, Hawaii BBC 11 Jun 07
Study: El Nino Boosts Marine Debris
Risks For Monk Seals
The Hawaii Channel 11 Jun 07
Letters about BYO Bag Day
Post global warming pointers on utility bills
Letter from Herbert Goh Hiok Straits Times Forum 12 Jun 07
Supermarkets half hearted on Bring Your Own Bag campaign Letter from Regina
Koh Soo Luan (Ms)
Straits Times Forum 8 Jun 07
Cashier put plastic bag in shopper's canvas bag
Letter from Sandra De Souza (Ms) Straits Times Forum 8 Jun 07
BYO Bag Day gets bigger and better
Gracia Chiang Today Online 5 Jun 07
HK may impose 50-cent tax on plastic
bags
By Jane Moir in Hong Kong Business Times 4 Jun 07
Plastic bags needed, but reduce dependence
Letter from Liang Xinyi (Ms) Communications Executive Singapore Environment
Council Straits Times Forum 25 May 07
Plastic bags ARE the enemy Letter
from Sam Bateman (Dr) S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies Nanyang
Technological University Straits Times 16 May 07
Plastic bags are not the enemy
By Senior Writer, Andy Ho Straits Times 12 May 07
Plastic bags: How to win over more
people? Explain the 'why' Letter from Lin Peiyi (Ms) Straits Times
Forum 11 May 07
Ontario Aims to Cut Use of Plastic
Bags by Half
Story by Jennifer Kwan PlanetArk 10 May 07
Care for a designer grocery bag?
The Electric New Paper 9 May 07
Some shoppers avoid supermarkets on
Bring Your Own Bag (BYOB) Day Others say... Great, now there's no
queue New Paper 5 May 07
Bag-free move has to go further
Today Online 4 May 07
Two more hands, please
Lee U-Wen Today Online 3 May 07
Few new converts in Bring Your Own
Bag Campaign
Channel NewsAsia 2 May 07
Are biodegradable bags that much better
than normal plastic bags? Letter from Chia Hern Keng Straits Times
Forum 2 May 07
Don't Let Bags Become Baggage
By Teh Jen Lee The Electric New Paper 30 Apr 07
Many upset over 10 cents bag charge
The Electric New Paper 30 Apr 07
No plastic, fantastic!
Save the world – and your kitchen drawer
Today Online 28 Apr 07
Charging for plastic bags not the solution
- give scientists more time to find alternatives Letter from Paul
Chan Poh Hoi
Straits Times Forum 28 Apr 07
Live without plastic bags? Here's how
it can be done
Letter from Dr Lee Siew Peng Middlesex, UK
Straits Times Forum 28 Apr 07
Plastic bags will always be around,
so let's find other ways to save the Earth
Letter from Alvin Sim Khim Woon London, United Kingdom Straits Times
Forum 28 Apr 07
Biodegradable bags don't help to cut
waste generation Letter from Ong Seng Eng Head Resource Conservation
Department National Environment Agency Straits Times Forum 26 Apr 07
Some suggestions on how we can achieve
a plastic bag-free society Letter from John Voon Zoon Choong
Straits Times Forum 25 Apr 07
Make it mandatory for all shops to
charge for plastic bags
Letter from Claire Ban Hui Ling (Miss)
Straits Times Forum 25 Apr 07
All Ikea plastic bags are oxo-biodegradable
Letter from Philip Wee General Manager Ikea
Straits Times Forum 24 Apr 07
Bring back brown paper bags of yore
Letter from Andrew Seow Chwee Guan
Straits Times Forum 24 Apr 07
Sending wrong message on Bring Your
Own Bag
Letter from Gloria Seow Ai Woon (Ms)
Straits Times Forum 23 Apr 07
Retailers, make plastic bags biodegradable
Letter from Grace Tan Hwee Neo (Ms)
Straits Times Forum 23 Apr 07
Household store IKEA starts charging
for plastic bags
Channel NewsAsia 22 Apr 07
Shoppers want to be given discounts
for bringing their own bags: poll Channel NewsAsia 20 Apr 07
Reforming a bag lady It will take
more than a bag tax to make me change my wasteful ways
Tabitha Wong Today Online 20 Apr 07
Charging for plastic bags not enough
Letter from Lum Yew Wai Straits Times Forum 20 Apr 07
100,000 plastic bags saved on Bring
Your Own Bag Day
Channel NewsAsia 19 Apr 07
Most shoppers respond positively to
Bring Your Own Bag Day
Gracia Chiang Today Online 19 Apr 07
Green alert! Letters about Bring
Your Own Bag Day
Today Online 19 Apr 07
Say no to plastic bags
Today Online 18 Apr 07
Recycle plastic - that's what we should
all do
Angela Banerjee (Mrs) Straits Times Forum 18 Apr 07
Local stores should also charge for
plastic bags
Letter from Grant W. Pereira GVN, SEC
Straits Times Forum 18 Apr 07
Education the best way to spread message why we need to reduce use of
plastic bags Letter from Lester Lam Yong Ling Ikea got me planning for
my future shopping trips
Letter from Jessica Joan Chang Bee Eng (Ms)
Cold Storage and NTUC FairPrice should follow Ikea's lead
Letter from Teo Keng Chuan
Once Singaporeans have to pay for plastic bags, they will think twice
before asking for more
Letter from Samantha Ng Bee San (Ms) Hawaii, USA
Plastic, not fantastic: Campaign to
curb plastic-bag wastage starts tomorrow Letter from Ong Seng Eng
Director, Resource Conservation Department National Environment Agency
Today Online 17 Apr 07
The argument is in the bag
Letters about plastic bags Today Online 16 Apr 07
Singapore won't be parched, thanks
to Newater Yaacob Ibrahim also calls for less use of plastic bags
By Lynn Lee Straits Times 16 Apr 07
'Green bags' are good, but some retail
staff don't know why Letters Today Online 14 Apr 07
Waste by the bagload
Letters about plastic bags Today Online 13 Apr 07
NEA launches campaign to encourage
shoppers to use reusable bags Channel NewsAsia 11 Apr 07
Ikea to start charging customers for
plastic bags
By Tania Tan Straits Times 11 Apr 07
Researcher: New Biodegradable Plastic
that Dissolves in Seawater Seen as Boon for Open Seas Trash Disposal Underwatertimes
3 Apr 07
San Francisco Lawmakers Vote to Ban
Plastic Bags
PlanetArk 29 Mar 07
British Retailers to Cut Down On Plastic
Bags
Story by Jeremy Lovell PlanetArk 28 Feb 07
Ikea to Charge US Customers for Plastic
Bags
Story by Jon Hurdle PlanetArk 22 Feb 07
Ireland to Raise "Green" Tax on Plastic
Bags
PlanetArk 22 Feb 07
Bags of trouble: We need a fee for
the use of plastic carrier bags Letter from Tan Choon Ming Today
Online 15 Dec 06
Plastics 'poisoning world's seas'
By Maggie Ayre Producer, Costing The Earth BBC 7 Dec 06
Letters on plastic bags
Straits Times Online 8 Dec 06
If grocers stop using plastic bags, I'd buy them to line my litter bin
Letter from Margaret Chong Kuan Mui (Mdm)
Try the Dutch way to reuse plastic bags and recycle bottles Letter from
Mrs Mieke Waterdrinker
Straits Times Forum 9 Dec 06
Use biodegradable plastic bags and recycle them
Letter from Ang Hak Heng
Take fewer plastic bags, use them to bag trash
Reply from Vincent Teo Hup Ee Chief Engineer (Waste Minimisation) Resource
Conservation Department National Environment Agency
Letters on charging for plastic bags
Straits Times Online 4 Dec 06
Charging for plastic bags will cut down on their use
Letter from Mark Ho Boon, Kin Hong Kong
Waste disposal: How not to use plastic bags?
Letter from Ng Mui Peng (Ms)
Use cash incentives to promote recycling among shoppers
Letter from Patricia Lynn Meyer (Ms)
Have separate queue in supermarts for those without plastic bags Letter
from Lilian Chai-Kubler (Ms)
Charge for plastic bags? NEA prefers
education
Reply from NEA Straits Times Online 29 Nov 06
Zanzibar Bans Plastic Bags
Yahoo News 8 Nov 06
Singaporeans asking for fewer plastic
bags when grocery shopping By May Wong Channel NewsAsia 7 Nov 06
Plastic trash vortex menaces Pacific
sealife: study
By Deborah Zabarenko Yahoo News 5 Nov 06
'Spot the green shopper' contest to
cut waste Letter from Vincent Teo Chief Engineer, Resource Conservation
Department National Environment Agency Straits Times Forum 4 Nov 06
Many plastic materials emit poisonous
dioxins when incinerated Letter from Shakib Gunn Straits Times
Forum 3 Nov 06
Get rid of plastic bags? Better
to recycle them
Letter from Lum Yew Wai Straits Times Forum 3 Nov 06
Make customers pay to cut down use
and save the earth
Letter from Phillip Ang Keng Hong
Straits Times Forum 31 Oct 06
Educate users to promote recycling,
don't tax them
Letter from Nelly Yanty (Ms) Straits Times Forum 31 Oct 06
Plastic Shopping Bag Kills 'Temata',
Beaked Whale Stranded in the Cook Islands Underwater times 27 Oct
06
480 students survey shoppers to find
out how environmentally friendly Singaporeans are
By Ng Lian Cheong Channel NewsAsia 22 Sep 06
Altered oceans: A plague of plastic
chokes the seas
By Kenneth R. Weiss Los Angeles Times 2 Aug 06
No plastic while shopping, please
Teo Xuanwei Today Online 5 Jun 06
In praise of a hidden household hero
Viewpoint by Jane Bickerstaffe BBC 24 Mar 06
Good move by Giant supermarket to sell
reusable bags at 95 cents Letter from Kevin Lam Koi Yau Straits
Times Forum Online 16 Feb 06
Lessons from Australia on cutting use
of plastic bags
Letter from Patricia Koh Hway Loo (Ms)
Straits Times Forum Online 15 Feb 06
Can dioxin leach from plastic bags
carrying hot drinks?
Letter from Loy Moi Long Straits Times Forum Online 14 Feb 06
Campaign launched to reduce usage of
plastic bags
By Valarie Tan Channel NewsAsia 11 Feb 05
New move to cut use of plastic bags
by Sarah Ng Straits Times, 12 Feb 06
Plastic bags binned as shopping goes
green
To help cut usage, Parkway Parade using reusable bags
Lee U-Wen Today 11 Feb 05
Study finds plastic in 95% of dead
birds
John Vincent news.scotsman.com 28 Dec 05
Make green bags more user-friendly
Letter from Yee Meow Lin Today Online 9 Dec 05
7-Eleven goes green
Vinita Ramani Today Online 2 Dec 05
Singapore firm produces biodegradable,
compostable bags
By Hasnita A Majid Channel NewsAsia 29 Nov 05
Plastic bag charge will do good
by Leong Ching The Straits Times 20 Nov 05
Cost savings from using fewer plastic
grocery bags
Letter from Goh Si Guim Straits Times Forum Online 13 Sep 05
Is the solution really that simple?
(To the plastic bag problem)
Letter from Preeti Athavle Today Online 13 Sep 05
When a little child decided to save
plastic bags
Letter from irene tan and from liu i-chun Today online 10 Sep 05
Stop using plastic bags for a month
to promote green habit
Letter from Damien Heng Teng Wei Straits Times Forum online 8 Sep 05
Cut trash – charge for plastic bags
Letter from Liu I-Chun Today online 6 Sep 05
Charging for trash bags can only help recycling efforts
Letter from Christina Lee Li Nan Today online, 7 Sep 05
Make that green swap: Start using durable bags instead of plastic ones
Reply from ONG SENG ENG Head, Resource Conservation Department, National
Environment Agency (NEA) Today online, 9 Sep 05
Impose tax on plastic grocery bags
to save environment
Straits Times Forum online 5 Sep 05
Indian State Bans Sale, Use of Plastic
Bags
By Ramola Talwar Badam, Associated Press
ENN website 25 Aug 05
Want to charge for that bag? Under
NEA plan, retailers may put a price on bags if they want to Lee U-Wen
Today Online 7 Jul 05
Let the plastic industry create a bag
that is environment-friendly
Letter to Today from Tan Ken Jin Today Online 23 Jun 05
Plastics meet 'green' objectives
Letter to Today from Ronald Lim President of the Singapore Plastic Industry
& Secretary General of the Asean Federation of Plastic Industries Today
Online 22 Jun 05
Marine groups in Scotland support plastic
bag levy to protect sea life WWF Online 20 Jun 05
Take care of the old bags
Fight plastic addiction without gahmen's help
Neil Humphreys Today Online 18 Jun 05
Plastic bag issue goes online
features in a public opinion poll on Yahoo! Singapore website
by Lee U-Wen Today Online 16 Jun 05
Don't give plastic excuses
These bags can harm environment — and that's the big issue
Letter from Kan Hwa Heng and from Hor Boon Hooi Letters to Today Online,
16 Jun 05
Problem is disposal, not use
Better environmental awareness would remove need to limit use of bags
Letter to Today Online from the Singapore Chemical Industry Council,
15 Jun 05
Japan tries to cut down on plastic
bags
by By Hiroko Tabuchi Associated Press Yahoo News 10 Jun 06
Some shoppers switch from plastic to
reusable bags
by Shermaine Wong The Straits Times 9 Jun 06
Give reusable bags a try
Letter from National Environment Agency Today Online 9 Jun 06
Lame excuses reflect the uphill task
of changing habits
Letter to Today Online from Eileen Low, 7 Jun 05
Lead the way, FairPrice: Charge for
the plastics
Letter to Today Online from Kan Hwa Heng, 6 Jun 05
Join forces and say 'no' to plastic
bags
Letter to Today Online from Joan D'Arcy, 6 Jun 05
Bags full of trouble:Hooked on plastic,
S'poreans won't change unless forced to by law
Lee U-Wen Today Online, 4-5 Jun 05
Green Bags at NTUC FairPrice
by Lee U-WenToday Online, 27 May 05
Worldwide coastal cleanup bags 4,000
tons of debris
by Jeannette J. Lee PlanetSave website, 19 May 05
Impose 'waste tax' to boost plastic-bag
recycling
Letter from Wong Sing Hoi to the Straits Time Forum Page, 14 Jun 05
Japanese green efforts are exemplary
Singapore should adopt similar policies to control plastic bag usage Letter
from Chan Yeok Kwan Today Online, 9 May 05
Is S'pore a nation of plastic bag junkies?
By Lee U-Wen Today Online, 25 Apr 05
Don't take more plastic bags than necessary
Letters to the Forum, The Straits Times , 1 Apr 05
links
PlanetArk's
Plastic Bag campaign 15 things you need to know about plastic bags,
steps for government, retailers and consumers to take to reduce plastic
bag usage, FAQs about plastic bags.
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