Queensbay recycling?

The past weeks the Recycling Rangers have been trying to contact different establishments around Penang to see whether they have been providing the resources for customers to recycle their trash or practicing other sorts of recycling activities.  So far the responses haven't been promising and by responses we mean lack thereof.  The only facility that would respond to our questions was Queensbay Mall however, they ignored our question about providing recycling facilities and instead focused on a new KDU college "Go Eco Not Ego" shopping bag design competition (which Queensbay has a partnership with).  This competition was inspired by Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng’s initial launch of the “No Plastic Mondays” Campaign and asks for applicants to design a new eco-friendly bag that will hopefully provide inspiration for the reduction in use of plastic bags.  The bags submitted will be auctioned off with proceeds going to charity.  

                         

Although this is a good starting effort it has little effect in directly reducing the number of plastic bags used. However, what it does do is bring awareness to the importance of recycling and hopefully encourage the public to think twice about using plastic bags when there is a much more sustainable option! And for that we cannot complain!

As for recycling in Queensbay the lack of acknowledgement does not gives us much hope about their recycling practices. We have never noticed bins for recycling in stores or throughout the mall but we hope this will change soon as more awareness is brought up about the issue!