We went for a drive to Alabang Town Center this today. We had lunch at Brooklyn Pizza which, I claimed to Michelle, is better than Avenetto. While eating, I noticed one diner holding up paper bags with slightly greasy bottoms asking for a plastic bag. The staff told him it’s not allowed and he left with his greasy paper bags. We also had to take home part of our lunch. The staff packed it in paper bags. On the way back to the parking building, we dropped by Mercury to buy some stuff, and again they put everything in a paper bag. It was paper bags everywhere!

Back home, I learned that Muntinlupa had passed an ordinance banning plastic bags. A commendable action indeed. Of course, there are a lot of whiners. One big complaint is it’s hard to carry bigger items in paper bags. The answer is to always have in hand reusable plastic or fabric bags, you know, the ones your mother or grandmother used to bring to the market. Instead of whining against something that’s good for the environment, we should think of ways to help make it work.