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Kalau, a member of the MITU Foundation, said, “We also focus on eliminating plastic bags for sustainable development and collaborating with the team, which has made the process easier. Our focus is also on empowering women tailors through sustainable bag stitching for fair compensation.” “Slowly but surely, progress is being made. So far, we have sold 14,000 cloth bags at a cost of approximately Rs eight each,” said Ashok, volunteer.
The "Replace It" campaign in Gaza is distributing bags made of cloth to encourage residents avoid using plastic totes, which can end up in the sea or littering the streets. Under the project, funded by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), young Palestinian women and men tour the streets, educate passersby and store owners about the dangers of the excessive use of plastic to the environment, and offer them cloth bags to use instead. Azhar Tanboura, of the local Joint Services Council for Solid Waste Management, which oversees the project, said the Gaza Strip produced 200 tonnes of solid waste a day, 16 percent of which is plastic.