Reusable Shopping Bag Center

Group Members: Chao Zhang, Runhao Zheng, Lihua Su,Meimei Lin, Manling Zeng,Jiehao Ma, Xiaofen Peng, Haijian Su

ZHANG CHAOCHINA

GuangDong University of TechnologyDigital Media Technology

‘ONLY ONE’

Background

‘The Ban On Free Plastic Bags Policy’In china, The production, sale and use of plastic shopping bags, 0.025 millimeters thick or thinner , will be banned, and retailers will be prohibited from providing customers with free plastic bags，January 1, 2008.

Sir, would you like to buy a shopping bag?

出门忘带了，家里已经堆积如山再买一个？买还是不买？……

Oh! I forgot to bring it. Should I buy one or not ?But, there are so many shopping bags in my house!

扔掉算了

people always forget to clean the reusable shopping bags in time, which give a chance to the bacterias to breed. In the end, They have to throw them away.

1.2. The Objective of our project

Try to support ‘The Ban on free plastic bags policy’. -Establish Reuse-Lease-Clean System

- To make full use of our ‎resources.- people can use reusable shopping bags healthily.- Provide convenience for people’s green life.

Project

Reusable Shopping Bag centerGuangdong University of Technology

Stop misusing reusable shopping bags!

‘Only One’ ——I only have one reusable bag！

Introduction 1.3. Project Implementation

By setting supermarket checkouts and residential area as site centers, residents can gain qualification and use tokens to exchange their dirty bags for ones that have been cleaned.

ProjectIntroduction

Reusable Shopping Bag centerGuangdong University of Technology

Supermarket site

Cleaning site

Recycle site

Customer receiving

Use token to get clean reusable shopping bags in supermarket site

Return the reusable shopping bags to nearby sites (residential area) and get token back.

Go shopping without bringing any bags with you

Short-termO

bjectives

2.1. Setting Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Center as experimental area, then cooperating with supermarkets which are located in the radiation area and establish distribution sites in the supermarket.

2.2. Cooperating with student unions, environmental protection organizations, volunteer organizations and etc. to establish recycle sites indormitory areas.

Reusable Shopping Bag centerGuangdong University of Technology

2.3. Invest about 7000 reusable shopping bags at preliminary stage and cleaning them once every two weeks. With the improving of our operating system, we will enlarge the number of investment of reusable shopping bags.

2.5.Set up our own website of this project.With the help of university BBS platforms and those hot social network sites, spreading our ideas and attracting more students to join us.

2.4. Complete the design work of related reusable shopping bag center products.

Short-termO

bjectives

We will Carry out our project in the other districts of Guangzhou, and eventually extend it to all around country successfully.

Long-termO

bjectives

Thank the British Council and LRQA, who provide us the opportunity to realize our concept of environmental protection. We benefit a great deal in the project.

Thank all those people who give us support and concern.

We hope that with our efforts, people will make full use of our ‎resources. And their green life will be more convenient and healthy after Restrictions on the use of Plastic Bags. We also hope that our ‘Only One’ conceptcan influence people, and more people will join us to contribute their efforts to our planet.

Reusable Shopping Bag centerGuangdong University of Technology

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Thank you！

Guangdong University of Technology

ZHANG CHAO