For those of you who don't know, the new rage in plastic bags are the ones without handles. Why? Oh, it's only that those bags are exempted.

The government went through all the trouble of pushing through this levy, and the result? Nothing. What was the point? Para 1.3 The point was to get rid of the plastic bag. Hong Kong's response: "No, we love plastic bags too much and destroying the environment as well."

The purpose of the levy was destroyed before it was even implemented! Is life in Hong Kong that centered around convenience? I now have no doubt.

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I suppose Hong Kong has a case of "I'm not going to believe it until I see Para 1.3 it" in respect to environmental damage. Does the trash need to pile over our heads before we admit there may be a slight problem?

The shops that started this in the first place have no shame. It's just business to them. The environment is not part of business in this part of the world yet so they don't have to care. Then the complaints (like mine) come, and they say: "All the other shops are doing it, and we'll lose out if we don't."

I suggest the more or less impossible solution. That is, all shops agreeing to stop destroying the environment in this way.

Finally, I must say I feel ashamed to be a citizen of Hong Kong. Making the mountain of trash the next generation (with me in it) is going to have to deal with a little smaller does not get recognition here. The government should at least include the handleless plastic bags in the levy and start preparing another levy on paper bags, which are sure to come.

A concerned citizen