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Daily Cuts - Can Singaporeans be trusted to pay for plastic bags?

Daily Cuts - Can Singaporeans be trusted to pay for plastic bags?
03 Jul 2023 11:01AM
9 mins

From today, it’s official that supermarkets will charge you 5 cents for every plastic bag you use. One supermarket chain is banking on the honesty of shoppers, particularly at the self-checkout counters — customers will be responsible for inputting the number of bags they use! Asia First’s Arnold Gay and Andrea Heng speak to Samuel Chng, Applied social psychologist and Head of the Urban Psychology Lab at the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities at SUTD, who tells us if he thinks the honour system will work.

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