#35: Ikat Tepi 3: Plastic Fantastic
This is part 3 of my series on Ikat Tepi, single-use plastics and it'll be my last entry into this topic here in the blog. It may live on elsewhere, maybe on social media, just haven't figured out what the next avenue will be to showcase this topic/series.
In part one, I've shown them hanging around everywhere, then in part two, I showed how bad it is when it comes to how we dispose of the ikat tepi's carelessly everywhere. And now we come to the part where it'll be just about the people on the street. The everyday people who use this form of plastics to grab a drink on-the-go. Not to point a finger at any one person, or shame anyone, but merely just to show that all walks of life around town... just use it.
Why asked for it in a plastic bag when you can just have it in a regular mug?
Oh yeah, I got one big pet peeve with how people get their ikat tepi's at the food stalls/outlets. What's with this thing about getting it in a mangkuk (bowl)??? Why not just have your drink in a regular mug/glass? Why the need to consume your drink out of a plastic bag when seated at a stall, when you can just as easily ask for it like a normal person, in a glass or cup. Supposedly you get more out of it then from a regular glass? is that true? I don't know. Or is it because the plastic re-useable glasses/mugs/cups are not clean enough for your liking that you resort to drinking it out of a plastic bag instead?
Oh well...
Ikat tepi is here to stay, and possibly for a very long time more to come. As I said before, there isn't a viable alternative yet, but the least we can do is put it in the right place after we use it. I hope you've enjoyed the last few blog posts. It was fun to do this small project and ikat tepi's still catch my eye every time I'm on the streets. I hope it has enlightened you a little and that you'll think twice about getting that single-use plastic bag. And let us all hope that there will be a change around the corner in terms of how we use our plastics.
Cheers everyone.
All photos were taken with the Fujifilm X100S.
