Are Environmental Friendliness and Good Service Mutually Exclusive in Japan?
In his recent world travels, the author has gotten used to the idea of having to ask for bags when he goes shopping. In the US, for instance, plastic bags are no longer free, so shoppers are expected to either do without them, bring their own reusable ones, or pay a fairly expensive price for one. In more politically aggressive places like Rwanda , the very idea of using plastic bags have become obsolete as plastic bags themselves are completely banned from the country. To those not used to having to carry around their own bags, it is a bit of nuisance, to say the least.