Singapore shoppers take 820 million plastic bags from supermarkets each year: Study
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By Aqil Haziq Mahmud @AqilHaziqCNA

31 Jul 2018 03:30PM (Updated: 31 Jul 2018 08:18PM)

Ricky Lim

Plastic bags from supermarket are also used to dispose waste at home - liquid or dry waste.
If plastic bags are charge, it will increase the cost of livings for man in the street --- and it will carry political cost --- the like of increasing GST.

Also it will bring about unhygienic behavior at home, as people will refrain from using plastic bag to collect waste -- due to cost involve in buying the plastic bags.

People at home will throw the dry or liquid waste directly into the waste chute --- that will cause rats, cockroaches and other pests to fester.

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Ricky Lim

In addition, it will curb purchase --- because the more people buy, the more they will have to purchase plastic bags to carry the goods.

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Ricky Lim

It make more sense for town council to collect the plastic bag and recycle it as petroleum - and energy source to produce electricity and water  --- rather than imposing the burden on the residents.

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Kelvin Chua

Mean while CPF got $11 billion from Singaporeans from Jan to Mar 2018! An average of $259,067 per contributor! Do you know that you can't even fit 1 billion into your iphone calculator when calculating in portrait mode? XD

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Ricky Lim

(1) You are out of topic. This topic is about plastic bags and not CPF.
(2) Your statement about "An average of $259,067 per contributor! " is grossly wrong.
The maximum CPF contribution amount per CPF member is $37,740 per year. Wonder how did you get the fgure?

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