project 9 | letter to sheikh

I am writing a letter to His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum about the removal of all plastic bags from the UAE supermarkets.

A company called Eco-Polymers recently joined up with Symphony to manufacture and distribute BIODEGRADABLE plastic bags all over the UAE.
You can read more about D2W biodegradable bags here: http://www.degradable.net/index.shtml. Also, you can read more about the joining of the two companies: http://archive.gulfnews.com/indepth/notoplastic/more_stories/10221646.html

There are so many initiatives going on in the world and in the UAE. We simply want to be an active part of that change. Hopefully Sheikh Mohammed will be receptive to our cause.

Plastic bags are a huge threat to our environment and should be banned. Cloth && Jute bags should replace them COMPLETLEY in supermarkets (making people pay for them isn’t enough–we need a complete makeover overhaul!) and sell the biodegradable bags as trash bags. My family personally use the plastic bags from supermarkets as our trashbags, and therefore previously found it hard to use material bags when shopping due to the need of trash bags. But now, we can use the biodegradable bags as trash bags and the cloth bags as shopping bags.

There are not only practical, but also much more fashionable and durable!!

We need to change our outlooks and lifestyles drastically, and the first step is to start at home! Let’s be the change we see in our lives!

-Seaon