We reached out to owners of food and beverage stores operating at our malls to explain and call for the removal of plastic straws. A majority of them has given us their understanding and cooperation for which we are ex-tremely thankful. Although it may take some time for some companies to roll out the changes due to a number of reasons, they have agreed with our proposal in princi-ple. Rather than just switching from plastic straws to pa-per ones, we want to reduce the use of straws altogether by oering customers the choice to opt out.Going forward, we intend to share our policies and deep-en relationships and help specialty stores face environ-mental issues through dierent eorts such as asking for the understanding and cooperation of food and drink specialty stores scheduled to open regarding elim-ination of plastic straws. Since international sports competitions and other global events are set to be held in the future, we will reduce the use of plastic prod-ucts in our malls, with an eye on the growing global envi-ronmental awareness reect-ed in domestic consumption trends.Our company has stores such as "Fresh Juice Bar Karin" oering juice made from ripe fruits in about 90 AEON MALLs. As we deal with fruits that are heavily depen-dent on the weather, we have long had a great interest in environmental issues, a shared awareness even within our company. Around the autumn of 2019, we were approached by AEON MALL about eliminating plastic straws. We immediately agreed with this request because we were also considering the introduction of paper straws.Operations for the sta working at our store in the pilot mall proceeded without any problems, and I feel that our customers have accepted our transition smoothly. For the sake of a sustainable society, we will continue to pursue further waste reduction.Accelerating the elimination of plastic straws at overseas mallsVietnam ranks 17th out of 109 countries in the world in terms of annual plastic waste emissions. It is estimated that the average weekly use of plastic shopping bags is 35 pieces per household, and about 938 million bags are used in the entire country.In order to reduce plastics usage, since World Environment Day on June 5, 2019, AEON MALL Binh Tan has been hold-ing "Non-Plastic Straw Day" on the 5th and 20th of each month, dedicated to the use of alternatives to plastic straws. Six stores in the food court are now oering rice straws to customers. All 5 malls in Vietnam are undertaking the initia-tive as they gradually adopt plastic alternatives.Endorsing the "plastic-free straws" concept as a specialty storeNew challenges to make our malls even more environmental friendlySDGsSustainable Development GoalsTakeshi WatanabeManaging Director General Manager Fruit Bar Sales DivisionFruit Aoki Co., Ltd.Mitsuhiro FujikiManaging DirectorExecutive General Manager Leasing DivisionAEON MALL CSR / ESG Report 202023
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