I READ with horror the reports, “Eliminating single-use plastics by 2030 seen as an uphill battle” (The Star, March 6; online at https://bit.ly/3mqAc3X) and “Banking on a ban to save the planet” (https://bit.ly/3Ywu5IB).
Firstly, why wait until 2030 to eliminate single-use plastics? That is simply too long a time to wait, and yet even that is described as an “ambitious goal”! Can’t the ban be introduced tomorrow? Must we have a complicated and protracted roadmap to achieve something that can so easily and instantly be ordered by the authorities concerned? After all, as stated in the second report, Johor introduced the ban on single-use plastics and polystyrene in 2019.
