Saturday sans platic bags

The campaign to save the environment seems to be in full gear:  No plastic bags on Saturday.  Well, that is the beginning of a long campaign. Howeverthere is cynicism in all this.  While the shoppers are deprived of the usual plastic bags to carry their purchase, they are offered to buy  bags to carry them - plastic bags, a more expensive ones at that.  Somebody seems keen to turn every situation into a financial gain!

But let's take a hard look at the directive.  By 'hard' I mean 'rational' or 'logical'.

No plastic bags does not mean no bags at all!  The entrepreneurs seem to understand this very well, and that's why they sell bags albeit plastic bags all the same.

Does the campaign to save the environment mean to present unnecessary hardships to shoppers so much so that they desert supermarkets on Saturday just to come back the next day when plastic bags are given away freely?

No plastic bags means no plastic bags but you can use paper bags.  Why not provide paper bags on Saturdays, and indeed any day of the week.  Malaysians, let's be rational.  Let's use the good, old paper bags everyday.  They are biodegradable, recyclable, and do not pose danger to the environment.