28/11/2007: 11.28 Kunming Plastic Bag Reduce Day

 

        
  The Kunming Plastic Bag Reduce Day (PBRD) unveiled its curtain
at the premise of WAL-MART on 28 November 2007. The activity is
a series of Save Energy Reduce Emission Citizen Action, which got
support of Yunnan Provincial Center for Environmental Education
and Communication (YPCEEC). Student volunteers worked together
with YEN officers for half a month to make it happen finally.
There are almost 100 participants attended the opening ceremony.
They are officers from YPCEEC, volunteer representatives from five
university environmental organizations, staff representatives from
WAL-MART and media persons from well-known local newspaper, local
radio broadcasting and TV stations. News about the PBRD is on air
in the evening and appears on the relevant newspaper the next day.

As soon as the ceremony is over, student volunteers run to the
other two WAL-MART and 4 Carrefour activity sites to disseminate
PBRD and deliver questionnaire to customers in the malls. Little
gifts are prepared by the malls to award these who participated
in the activities, such as listen to the loudspeakers, fill in
questionnaire and so on. There are other three supermarkets from
three universities also joining the activity. Of course,one of
the malls called METRO is worth of mentioning here. By far, the mall
is the only one among others in Kunming that charges its customer
for plastic bag.


  GOs, NGOs and businesses are jointly launching the campaign on PBRD


  A customer is filling in questionnaire at the mall


  Plastic bags flow out of the mall every second


  A reporter from Yunnan Peopl's Broadcasting Station is at the PBRD venue


  We take an action to stand for PBRD