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Warsaw, 20 May 2008 Pro-environmental public campaigns - fashion or good practice? Growing concern about the environment is observed during the recent years. The world has been comprised within a specific fashion concerning environmental issues. People tend to be in line with the spirit of time, hence to counteract environmental pollution, or climate change. On 12 May 2008, Carrefour Poland launched public campaign named "Let Us Love the Environment", with Ministry of the Environment being a partner to it. Already on 5 June 2008, Carrefour Poland is supposed to phase out plastic bags from use and will offer innovative, entirely biodegradable type of bags. They are the first in Poland the trade network to introduce this innovative in their shops. The price of new bag will be 0.60 PLN, and as much as a half of the responders surveyed have declared willingness to purchase it. Publication on 19 May 2008, of a number of articles on "green pages" of the "Daily" is another evidence of the concern attached by the general public to the environmental issues. Each copy of the "Daily" was provided with a linen shopping bag. That is aimed at provision of a solution to the "burdensome" waste problem undoubtedly caused by use of plastic bags. However, the issue is not to eliminate totally, but to reduce considerably the waste volumes which soon originate from use thereof (once taken out from a shop, such a bag remains in use for only 15 - 20 min, on average, and then it is discarded and becomes waste). Ministry of the Environment
endorses such type projects. It is noteworthy that the Ministry is involved
in promotion of the use of reusable shopping bags and it keeps finger on
the current developments in this regard. A positive tendency can be noted
in Poles' environmental awareness. It is good that the protection of the
environment becomes nowadays gradually not a sole fashion as itself, but
also a good practice, as well.
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