Indian Supermarket Should Use Banana Leaves To Package Products Instead Of Plastic Like This

One day goes by, we have witnessed the severe pollution of the global environment along with the plastic coverage on all of our oceans. Although we are looking for efficient solutions to deal with the situation, every effort doesn’t seem to be enough.

In Thailand, a supermarket chain has found out one exciting way to reduce the use of plastic products in the market: they decide to use fresh banana leaves as an eco-friendly alternative for some kinds of plastic material, which is commonly chosen to hold or package products.

Rimping – a supermarket chain from Chiangmai, Thailand has had a wise decision when removing a variety of plastic material from plastic plates, food wrappers, to plastic bags, and something like this.

Using banana leaves may not be strange with anyone who lives or has lived in India because the special material is used as wrappers or plates in the nation, including in some ‘polite’ places like restaurants. In addition, many of us think that banana leaves can keep the unique flavour of each wrapped food, as well as ensure your digestion will operate better thanks to enzymes hidden in the leaves.

As per the environment protection, this is an actually great choice. According to the estimation from the United Nations Environment Programme, 1200 crores tonnes of plastic waste will be thrown away in landfills as well as in oceans in the world before the year 2050 ends. Of which, materials that are made of plastic like bottles, straws, food wrappers, bags, or cigarette butts are the main culprit.

Although the solution of the Rimping supermarket chain can’t prevent 100% plastic from polluting our living environment, it is contributing to reducing the amount of waste output that can’t be biodegradable. Hopefully, in the near future, what the Rimping supermarket chain has done along with the efforts from other organizations will reach positive results.