No Plastic Bags Awareness Campaign @ Prangin Mall
Speech by Y.B. Ng Wei Aik, the State Assemblyman for KOMTAR for launching “No Plastic Bags Awareness” Campaign @ Prangin Mall on 6th of November, 2009 at Atrium A, Prangin Mall:
Mr Alex Heng, Chairman of Prangin Mall Joint Management Committee,
Mr Ang Thean Hock, Chairman of Prangin Mall Merchants Association,
Members of Joint Management Committee,
Distinguished guests,
Tenants/Traders of Prangin Mall,
Our fellow journalists,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
A very good afternoon to everyone of you!
First of all, I would like to record my heartiest appreciation for inviting me to be part of your effort in launching “No Plastic Bags Awareness” Campaign @ Prangin Mall.
On behalf of the State Government of Penang, I would like to commend such an effort as Prangin Mall is the second multi-ownership shopping complex after KOMTAR to encourage all its traders/tenants to take part in the “No Plastic Bags Awareness” Campaign initiated by the State Government.
As you have seen, Prangin Mall has printed 2,000 recyclable shopping bags to be free distributed to their customers and also put up quite a lot of banners in every corner of the mall, as a way to promote the idea of “No Plastic Bags Awareness” Campaign and also to increase the public awareness over this campaign.
Based on the data provided by 45 participating super/hypermarkets and other retailers, Penangites have saved about 1 million plastic bags on “No Plastic Mondays” for the past 4 months, starting from 6 July, 2009.
Last year alone, the 6 major groups of super/ hypermarkets in Penang distributed as much as 25.2 million pieces of plastics bags or 2.1 million pieces monthly. We have become the first state in Malaysia that had cut down the usage of plastic bags through such voluntarily program.
We have also collected more than RM 10,000 from the charges of 20 cents per bags. These charges have been donated to the Partners Against Poverty (PAP) fund to assist in eradicating hard-core poverty in Penang.
Penang became the first state in Malaysia to ensure that every family receives at least RM500 per month. The hard-core poor is defined as families receiving monthly income of less that RM 430.
And for the constituency of KOMTAR, we are now the first constituency in the state of Penang where all the shopping complexes, including Prangin Mall, KOMTAR and Gama Supermarket has taken part in the No Plastic Bag Awareness Campaign. I will ensure the Times Square and the 1st Avenue to follow suit when they are fully operational sometimes this year or next year.
I would like to bring you a good where the Selangor State Government has recently emulated our effort to introduce such a campaign to all its shopping complexes in Selangor.
The attendees of the meeting called by the Selangor Exco incharge of the campaign even praised the effort by the State Government of Penang. I think we are right in setting such a direction to make Penang as the first Green State in Malaysia as well as a role model for other states to emulate.
Like what Mr Alex Heng said, Our Children also share the same earth with us!
Yes, I do agree with your view and once again, I would like to urge everyone of us, please:
Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.
Let us together support the Penang State Government’s effort to increase No Plastic Bags Day, to double it up or triple it up from Monday to more and more days in a week.
Thank you very much.
Mr Alex Heng, Chairman of Prangin Mall Joint Management Committee,
Mr Ang Thean Hock, Chairman of Prangin Mall Merchants Association,
Members of Joint Management Committee,
Distinguished guests,
Tenants/Traders of Prangin Mall,
Our fellow journalists,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
A very good afternoon to everyone of you!
First of all, I would like to record my heartiest appreciation for inviting me to be part of your effort in launching “No Plastic Bags Awareness” Campaign @ Prangin Mall.
On behalf of the State Government of Penang, I would like to commend such an effort as Prangin Mall is the second multi-ownership shopping complex after KOMTAR to encourage all its traders/tenants to take part in the “No Plastic Bags Awareness” Campaign initiated by the State Government.
As you have seen, Prangin Mall has printed 2,000 recyclable shopping bags to be free distributed to their customers and also put up quite a lot of banners in every corner of the mall, as a way to promote the idea of “No Plastic Bags Awareness” Campaign and also to increase the public awareness over this campaign.
Based on the data provided by 45 participating super/hypermarkets and other retailers, Penangites have saved about 1 million plastic bags on “No Plastic Mondays” for the past 4 months, starting from 6 July, 2009.
Last year alone, the 6 major groups of super/ hypermarkets in Penang distributed as much as 25.2 million pieces of plastics bags or 2.1 million pieces monthly. We have become the first state in Malaysia that had cut down the usage of plastic bags through such voluntarily program.
We have also collected more than RM 10,000 from the charges of 20 cents per bags. These charges have been donated to the Partners Against Poverty (PAP) fund to assist in eradicating hard-core poverty in Penang.
Penang became the first state in Malaysia to ensure that every family receives at least RM500 per month. The hard-core poor is defined as families receiving monthly income of less that RM 430.
And for the constituency of KOMTAR, we are now the first constituency in the state of Penang where all the shopping complexes, including Prangin Mall, KOMTAR and Gama Supermarket has taken part in the No Plastic Bag Awareness Campaign. I will ensure the Times Square and the 1st Avenue to follow suit when they are fully operational sometimes this year or next year.
I would like to bring you a good where the Selangor State Government has recently emulated our effort to introduce such a campaign to all its shopping complexes in Selangor.
The attendees of the meeting called by the Selangor Exco incharge of the campaign even praised the effort by the State Government of Penang. I think we are right in setting such a direction to make Penang as the first Green State in Malaysia as well as a role model for other states to emulate.
Like what Mr Alex Heng said, Our Children also share the same earth with us!
Yes, I do agree with your view and once again, I would like to urge everyone of us, please:
Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.
Let us together support the Penang State Government’s effort to increase No Plastic Bags Day, to double it up or triple it up from Monday to more and more days in a week.
Thank you very much.
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