Paper Bag Campaign

With the increasing concerns regarding the harmful effects of plastic bags, people have opted a more environmental approach by deviating towards the use of cloth and paper bags. In order to encourage people to adopt this environmental approach, the Interact Club of Rato Bangala initiated a small campaign. The students of the school were asked to make as many paper bags they could using old newspapers and magazines. The bags that had been made by students were collected and evenly distributed to students so they could distribute them to local shops in the vicinity of their neighborhood. Since its usually these local shops and street vendors who are compelled to use plastic bags due to their low costs and easily disposable feature, the students provided the paper bags to sellers as a substitute. The students also made sure local shops and streets vendors knew about the harmful effect of using plastics bags and encouraged them to either sell paper bags or ask customers to bring cloth bags while shopping. Although this  was a more local campaign, it was successful in discouraging use of plastic bags.