Starting from February 4th 2008, plastic carriers taken from NUS CO-OP will be charged at 10 cents, proceeds will go to the Rebate2Earth Funds under NUSSU SAVE for future environmental projects. By this initiative, we hope to reduce plastic bag usage in NUS CO-OP by 50%. (more)

Introduced just over 25 years ago, the ugly truth about our plastic bag addiction is that society's consumption rate is now estimated at well over 500,000,000,000 (that's 500 billion) plastic bags annually, or almost 1 million per minute. (more)

Although Singapore incinerates our plastic bags alongside with other garbage, the production of plastic bags is still a strain on resources. It is estimated that the energy consumed in the life cycle of a plastic bag is equivalent to 13.8 millimeters of crude oil, about a tablespoonful. With that, Singapore has to refine 216,998 barrels of crude oil every year to make plastics for packaging. (more)

YES we hear your concerns! Let us try our best to address it here.
--- As a consumer, the total cost I incur will rise!
--- Will this taxation policy actually achieve the intended objective?
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