Small retailers like Primark are leading environment friendly initiatives

One of the most wizard and harmful innovation of the last century is PLASTICS. There is a generation has lived with and loved plastics in every sense. From food to clothes to entertainment, everyone is heavily using plastics. There has been awareness in recent times to avoid using plastics wherever it is possible.

The biggest consumers and distributors of the plastic bags and packaging have been the retailers. After public pressure they have started to sell reusable plastic bags and cotton bags as well. But it seems that these retailers are not getting involved in these initiatives whole-heartedly. For example if you go to buy flowers in a supermarket in UK, the person on the till will offer you a free plastic bag. Though the flowers are already packed in plastic but there is one more plastic bag to be used. Some of the retailers are selling bunch of daffodils flowers for 99p but they give you a quite big flower bag.

But two of the most criticised retailers of UK, Tesco and Primark, are leading the environment friendly initiatives and trying to minimised the use of plastic in their packaging and bags. For example Tesco has reduced the number of bags used by its customers by 40% in last couple of years. Primark has taken biggest leap and has stopped using plastic bags altogether. Initially customers were scaptic about the use of paper bags for shopping but now you can notice on the high street a lot of customers carrying Primark's paper bags.

Some people are raising the question about the paper used in manufacturing the bags. They are saying that the paper used is not recycled one so it might ultimately be burden on the forests. But I disagree with them. I will say that paper bag is not a problem for the disposal and very much environment friendly in comparision to the plastic bags. Though I do not know the source of the paper used in the bags but all of us know that it takes 2-3 years to grow a tree or forest if we have land and it is very natural processs. We can have forest very fast if there will be need for this but we can not dispose plastic.

Bigger and famous retailers need to take social concerns in consideration and take intiatives. Otherwise there will be very serious damaging impacts on the lives of all of us.