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Wide shopper pushing a trolley inside supermarket2. Mid shot customer choosing fruit inside supermarket3. Wide shot queue to cashier inside supermarket4. Close up food being put in a plastic bag5. Cashier...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eHong Kong - 27 March 2009\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide shopper pushing a trolley inside supermarket\u003cbr/\u003e2. Mid shot customer choosing fruit inside supermarket\u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide shot queue to cashier inside supermarket\u003cbr/\u003e4. Close up food being put in a plastic bag\u003cbr/\u003e5. Cashier calling for next customer\u003cbr/\u003e6. Wide shot display of recycled bags inside supermarket\u003cbr/\u003e7. Pan of recycled bags\u003cbr/\u003e8. Mid shot rice sack with panda images\u003cbr/\u003e9. Wide shot display of recycled bags\u003cbr/\u003e10. Close up image on a recycled bag\u003cbr/\u003e11. Food being put inside a recycled bag\u003cbr/\u003e12. Mid shot woman taking a recycled bag from cashier with food she just bought inside supermarket\u003cbr/\u003eShenzhen - 9 April 2009\u003cbr/\u003e13. Wide shot worker preparing to cut the rice sacks\u003cbr/\u003e14. Close up worker cutting the edge of a rick sack\u003cbr/\u003e15. Mid shot worker sewing a rice sack\u003cbr/\u003e16. Close up machine sewing round the hem of a rice sack\u003cbr/\u003e17. Set up Brian Pemberton checking a rice sack after it has been sewn\u003cbr/\u003eHong Kong - 27 March 2009\u003cbr/\u003e18. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian Pemberton, Entrepreneur:\u003cbr/\u003e\"with ReSACKel bags, we take an old piece of packaging, the rice sack, and we reuse it, so you are giving something that already had the resources required to make it in the first place, and then you are reusing it, so you are saving all the resources that were used in the rice sack. And you are taking out of the equation of requirement to make a new fabric. So for that reason they're twice as environmental friendly.\"\u003cbr/\u003e19. Brian Pemberton putting various recycled bags on table\u003cbr/\u003e20. Close up recycled bags\u003cbr/\u003e21. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian Pemberton, Entrepreneur:\u003cbr/\u003e\"One very well-known environmentalist said \"when you throw something away, where is away? It has to go somewhere\". So that's the mentality we all need to begin to take on board. Start to use less... that's basically it, we need to begin to, you know, consider using less and be more efficient of what we do have.\"\u003cbr/\u003e22. Wide shot customer putting food into her own shopping bag\u003cbr/\u003e23. SOUNDBITE (English) Ms Choi, Customer:\u003cbr/\u003e\"So honestly I am very conscious, if they give me the plastic bag, I always try to reuse it and put it in a separate bag, so that someday people can recycle those.\"\u003cbr/\u003e24. Wide shot customer checking at cashier putting a can of drink into her own bag\u003cbr/\u003e25. SOUNDBITE (English) Customer, name unknown:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Well it's actually more convenient because it means I am not gathering plastic bags at home, because we've always been gathering more than I would actually use. It's actually quite practical if I can remember to bring it out with me.\"\u003cbr/\u003e26. Close up of environmentally-friendly bag carried on a shopper's shoulder\u003cbr/\u003e27. Wide customers in a queue in front of cashiers, recycled shopping bags hanging next to queue\u003cbr/\u003e28. Tilt up to recycled shopping bags on display inside supermarket\u003cbr/\u003eIn Hong Kong, an English entrepreneur is recycling rice sacks into shopping bags.\u003cbr/\u003eAt the same time a new law has come into force meaning supermarkets now charge for plastic bags.\u003cbr/\u003eA typical scene from a supermarket.\u003cbr/\u003eShoppers browse the aisles and queue at the check out.\u003cbr/\u003eWares get scanned and packed into plastic bags.\u003cbr/\u003eThese days, more and more environmentally conscious consumers aim to reuse their shopping bags.\u003cbr/\u003eThis trend has inspired one entrepreneur to not only reuse the carrier bags, but also reuse the material they are made of.\u003cbr/\u003eSo Brian Pemberton came up with the reusable rice bag, made from rice sacks.\u003cbr/\u003eThese rice bags are mainly collected from mainland China and Thailand.\u003cbr/\u003eThey carry unique and colourful designs and writings, including pandas.\u003cbr/\u003eThe endurable rice bags were originally made to carry 25kg of rice.\u003cbr/\u003eNow, they are turned into shopping bags after being washed, cut and sewn.\u003cbr/\u003eThe rice sacks are cleaned individually by hand with eco-friendly detergent before they are cut and sewn into shapes in a factory in Southern China city of Shenzhen neighbouring Hong Kong.\u003cbr/\u003ePemberton says originally he was looking for a business idea that was eco-friendly.\u003cbr/\u003eOne day he saw the rice sacks being used as gravel bags on the side of the street in Hong Kong - showing they were strong enough to carry shopping. \u003cbr/\u003e\"We take an old piece of packaging, the rice sack, and we reuse it,\" says Pemberton, \"so you are giving something that already had the resources required to make it in the first place, and then you are reusing it, so you are saving all the resources that were used in the rice sack. And you are taking out of the equation of requirement to make a new fabric. So for that reason they're twice as environmentally friendly.\"\u003cbr/\u003ePemberton says people should \"start to use less... that's basically it.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe rice carrier bags are sold in various locations including local supermarkets.\u003cbr/\u003eCustomers support the idea of using eco-friendly shopping bags instead of  plastic bags.\u003cbr/\u003eMs Choi brings her own bag for shopping. \u003cbr/\u003eShe says if she's given a plastic bag, she will try to reuse it as much as possible.\u003cbr/\u003eAnother shopper thinks it's good to use shopping bags that were made in an environmentally friendly way. \u003cbr/\u003eAccording to the Environment Protection department, more than eight billion plastic shopping bags are disposed of at landfills every year in Hong Kong. \u003cbr/\u003eThat is more than three plastic shopping bags per person per day.\u003cbr/\u003eTo address the abuse of plastic shopping bags, a levy on plastic bags has been introduced in Hong 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