plastic bags or Furoshiki

Here if you are shopping in the supermarkets, they will give you plastic bags free of charge. But the goverment decided to charge plastic bags in near future. When I went to Europe , in some countries they ask do I need plastic bags and if I need, they charged that, but when I went to U.S.A. I have never asked like in Japan.

Everyday, everyday if I buy something, always have to throw away some trash. I think it is good oppotunity to think about our environment more.

Once in our coutry everyone had been using "Furoshiki" ,now only some people espscially old people are using, which is cloth to wrap something. It is good time to review our traditional things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furoshiki