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If you think you heard enough depressing things about the state of the environment - I'm with you. There is a lot of horrible information about global warming, oil spills, ozone layer holes and I do not know of you, but it makes me sad and defenseless. However, a store in Thailand gives us hope. This Asian supermarket called Rimping took a massive step to reduce the pollution of the environment - they stop using plastic.

And we are not talking about the classic loading option for plastic bags to discourage use, or offer paper bags instead of plastics. This supermarket went a step further. They ceased to use plastic packaging for their products and use banana leaves as a package.

It's a kind of return to the old days before the plastic was even something. It is such a simple but genius solution. Think about it, no one really needs to pack plastic fruits and vegetables. It is only because it is cheap and facilitates the transport of products, but the plastic takes thousands of years to break down, it leaves behind the harmful toxins, poisons the soil and the water while it hang up discharges and a very small part of it being recycled.

Every day we continue to hear about turtles that get plastic straws block their noses and whales on the beach with literal plastic tons in their stomach. We use and chips so much plastic every day, then birds, seals and various other animals are blocked or wounded or worse, and this happens every day. This is 2019 and our planet drowns essentially plastic. Recycling is good but it is not enough. We should think of ways to completely reduce plastic consumption.

Uses a better solution? It's natural, there is no trash behind, everything is organic and clean, you do not even have to think about recycling and my humble opinion, it seems a lot more attractive this way.

And you know what is the best part of this Asian supermarket that has stopped using plastic? They do not even use it as a big promotional idea, it's not an ad or waterfall, they did not posted this on the internet or paying someone to talk about it and brilliant way to avoid plastic . A random person has just come, thought it was a brilliant idea and decided to take some pictures to share on Facebook and he went viral.

If you are attentive, you will see that even though most things from the Rimant supermarket are packed in leaves, there are still some plastic things. The reason is that some products are imported and it is packed like that by the supplier. There is little supermarket of Rimpings can do about it. But they hope to eliminate all plastic by just letting choose customers choose. If more people choose to buy objects wrapped in leaves and that the products wrapped in plastic are left behind influence the supply chain. This is a simple question of demand and supply after all.

The rim supermarket is not alone trying to avoid plastic. China has ceased to import plastic waste and now focuses on recycling their. Many Asian countries take steps to limit their use of plastic and be more environmentally friendly.

We encourage you to register. Recycling the plastic you have already accumulated, it will take you a fraction of the time compared to the pants time. Try going free plastic when you can, bring tote bags with you, support business and ecological initiatives. We only have one planet and we should deal with it.