Bring Your Own Bag - BYOB
It's been over two months since I left Bangalore and moved to the place of my birth, Coimbatore. Off the many positive differences I could see here, environmental awareness is surely not one of those. Administrators in Bangalore have prohibited the usage of plastic bags to a maximum extent. Almost every individual is aware of the fact that you can never visit a grocery shop or a supermarket hands-waving, if you are serious about buying things. This applies to all levels - from the fruit and flower vendor on the streets to the apparels stores in a shopping mall ( or go for a paid recycled bag, which I don't have a great regard for) . The message sent was so powerful such that massive fines were imposed on vendors, who continued to use plastic bags. Not the case with us in Coimbatore. There have been countless articles , videos and posts about how detrimental plastic can be, how immortal plastic becomes when it comes into existence, what damage we are causing