I haven't written anything in a while, and I actually miss typing long sentences, more than 140 characters, although I noticed and other people noticed that I've been using twitter but mainly tweeting about food :D
Anyway, a lot happened for the past few weeks with Ondoy, Pepeng and now there's another storm coming. I just have some few thoughts, outside what's been being regularly said. Well for one, about using eco bags when doing groceries.
I'm a big fan of cute, nice, big, eco bags! But recently I haven't been using them but I have a perfectly good explanation. I told my mom before that I'll get her eco bags but she said if she starts using eco bags, what will be used for the trash in the house, which now since I've moved out, I now get what she means. If I start using eco bags when doing groceries, we would still end up buying trash bags. So it's really more of 'recycling' which we have to do also, not just promote eco bags.
And when buying small things like let's say a pen in the local bookstore, don't ask them to wrap it for you anymore, just ask for the receipt, put it in your bag, do the same thing when you buy vitamins or meds in the drugstore, oh and this one's a good tip, don't use straws anymore whenever you dine in fast food joints or restaurants.
I think in a trip to Hong Kong I saw that Mcdonald's have a "No Straw Day" campaign, where they don't give out straws for the drinks, just a little step to save the environment. We should also be doing the same thing in Manila :)
Let's basically minimize our trash, and I'm sure we'll benefit helluva a lot from it.
