Start No plastic bag on Saturday, and continuously do No plastic bag everyday!

In order to reduce the use of plastic bags, the Malaysian government has issued a new rule that requires shoppers to pay 20 sen ($0.08) for each plastic bag when they shop on Saturdays.  The amount collected with the sale of these plastic bags will go into a fund to benefit the environment and community.  This is why we started with " I'm not a plastic bag". we want to increase the awareness among the public which is you guys.  thus, by saving one plastic bag everyday you can reduces the usage of billion plastic bags over the year.  Absolutely right, when people say it is hard to not using the plastic bag since we has been using it for a decades but look at the outcomes and the effect to our earth.  It is something that is not valuable to do.  We get no benefit for put high consumption in using plastic bag.  Plastic bag brings many cons to the earth.  We are the people that rules the world, and to change the environment it start with us the people who lives the earth.

Plastic bags take hundreds of years to degrade entirely, also contributing to hazardous emissions to the atmosphere whilst decomposing. In Malaysia, plastic bags and goods represent approximately 24% of the total waste, according to experts. Even worse, plastic bags end up being littered at public places, clogging up sewage drains which could contribute to flooding. When washed out to the ocean, plastic bags could pose a risk to marine animals whether through accidental ingestion or suffocation.  In Africa, the sight of littered plastic bags was so ubiquitous that a home-based industry has been developed to harvest these bags. The bags will be woven into hats, mats and even more durable bags, selling it off later on.

There are numerous ways to cut down on the usage of disposable plastic products such as utensils to food containers.   Besides that, reusable bags can be found in various colors and designs nowadays, no longer dull and unappealing. However, reusable bags should be washed often as well, as it breeds bacteria easily. A little bit goes a long way, no doubt Malaysia will be a greener country within years to come if young 

Malaysians incorporate reusing and recycling in their daily lives.

By 2015 Plastic Bag Have 40% of Recycle Content?

The American Chemistry Council — the same industry trade association that funded two studies "misrepresent[ing] the hazards of bisphenol A" — is setting its sights on making plastic bags with 40 percent recycled content by 2015.
It's both good news and a shrewd public relations campaign, but according to the ACC, there are two major factors that must be first addressed:
1. The manufacturing process will need to be completely revamped, so the plastic bag industry plans to invest $50 million toward this effort
2. More plastic bags will need to be collected to provide the additional recycled content (but no specific numbers have been mentioned)
With 100 billion plastic bags being used once or twice in the U.S. annually, there is no shortage of bags to collect. But thanks to municipal and state recycling programs and outright bans, plastic bag recycling has already increased by 27 percent from 2005 to 2007. That's 830 million pounds of non-biodegradable bags being diverted from landfills, marine habitats and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and converted into pellets, bags and plastic lumber.
The ACC's 2015 target anticipates an additional 300 million pounds of waste reduction per year.
Funny enough, the ACC notes that the growing popularity of reusable bags could be an impediment. But this just means that people should just generate less plastic waste whenever possible, reuse or recycle plastic bags instead of discarding them, and to continue with the good habit of using a waste-less bag, instead of plastic. (Kimberly, 2009)

So, this means that actually environment can be save by doing one of effort which reuse plastic bag and it should being started by TODAY...we do not have to wait until 2015. Make it NOW.

the use of plastic bag in the world is increasing everyday. one of the cause is the lack of awareness of the importance to reduce plastic bag usage in our daily life. some might say that don't see that the plastic bag would harm the living.

Did you know that plastic bag does pollute or sea thousands of kilometres off shore as we speak? many wild life that deserve a place here in the world with us has been jeopardized by the unwanted plastic bag waste.

make a change today. support us 'I'm Not a Plastic Bag'.... we are on Twitter and Facebook as well. Let us put a smile on our future generation =)

source: http://www.momgoesgreen.com/category/reusable-bags/

tips menggunakan bahan plastic

1. Cegah penggunaan botol susu bayi dan cangkir bayi (dengan lubang penghisapnya) berbahan polycarbonate, cobalah pilih dan gunakan botol susu bayi berbahan kaca, polyethylene, atau polypropylene. 
2. Jika penggunaan plastik berbahan polycarbonate tidak dapat dicegah, janganlah menyimpan air minum ataupun makanan dalam keadaan panas.
3. Hindari penggunaan botol plastik untuk menyimpan air minum. . Bahan alternatif yang dapat digunakan adalah botol stainless steel atau kaca.
4. Cegahlah memanaskan makanan yang dikemas dalam plastik, khususnya pada microwave oven, yang dapat mengakibatkan zat kimia yang terdapat pada plastik tersebut terlepas dan bereaksi dengan makanan lebih cepat. .
5. Bungkuslah terlebih dahulu makanan dengan daun pisang atau kertas sebelum dibungkus dengan plastik pembungkus ketika akan dipanaskan di microwave oven.
6. Cobalah untuk menggunakan kemasan berbahan kain untuk membawa sayuran, makanan, ataupun belanjaan dan gunakanlah kemasan berbahan stainless steel atau kaca untuk menyimpan makanan atau minuman.
7. Cegah penggunaan piring dan alat mekan plastik untuk masakan. Gunakanlah alat makan berbahan stainless steel, kaca, keramik, dan kayu.

Bahaya bahan kimia Dalam pembungkus plastik

Plastik yang dijadikan bahan pembungkus diperbuat daripada pelbagai bahan kimia seperti polietilina, polietilina terefatalat, propilina dan polivinil klorida. 

Selain itu, sejenis bahan pelembut (plasticizers) turut dimasukkan bagi membolehkan plastik yang hasilkan untuk pembungkusan ini bertekstur licin dan mudah dilentur atau dibentuk dalam pelbagai bentuk yang menarik

 Masalah hanya timbul jika plastik pembungkus itu diperbuat daripada PVC. Plastik pembungkus jenis ini didapati mengeluarkan bahan pelembut DEHA ke dalam makanan.

Daripada data kajian yang dijalankan terhadap haiwan, DEHA berupaya merosakkan sistem peranakan dan menghasilkan janin yang cacat, selain mengakibatkan kanser hati walaupun perkara yang sama tidak ditemui pada tikus


BERIKUT ADALAH cara untuk memastikan plastik itu daripada jenis PVC atau tidak, adalah dengan melihat di bawah bekas plastik yang biasanya mempunyai beberapa tanda tulisan seperti berikut:

• EVA kopolimer etilina vinilaserat
• HDPE polietilina ketumpatan tinggi
• PE polietilina
• PET polietilina terefatalat
• PP polipropilina
• p-PVC polivinil klorida yang dirawat dengan bahan pelembut

the reality is..?

without we realized the plastic bag also did jeorpadize the marrine lifes.. more than a million birds and 100,000 marine mammals and sea turtles die every year from eating or getting entangled in plastic.

did we want all the marine animals end up just like that.. because of human wrong act.. definitely not.. 

you know what you should do.. 

 

salam.. hi everyone.. did all of us aware that plastic doesn’t biodegrade. That means unless they’ve been incinerated — a noxious proposition — every plastic bag you’ve ever used in your entire life, including all those bags that the newspaper arrives in on your doorstep, even on cloudless days when there isn’t a sliver of a chance of rain, still exists in some form, even fragmented bits, and will exist long after you’re dead.

we can make it better for our future generations living by make a starts at today.. 

citation: http://www.salon.com/2007/08/10/plastic_bags/