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Getting started to go green
1.3
Quick Start Menu to go green
GREEN TIPS
Examples of how shoppers can support green campaigns and
green measures
• Remember to “Bring Your Own Bag” for shopping.
• Say “No” to plastic bags.
• Say “No” to excessive packaging and excessive wrapping.
• Only buy what you really need. Avoid excessive consumption to
reduce waste.
• Only order food in amounts that you can eat to avoid waste.
• Reduce, reuse and recycle.
• Take public transportation.
• Wear light clothing (in terms of texture and colour) in summer to
avoid the need for shopping malls or shop spaces to set indoor
temperatures too low.
Step 1.6
Support green campaigns and green measures adopted by shopping malls and shops spaces
Step 2: Be involved–make your opinion count
Provide feedback to the shopping malls and shops
Your feedback to shopping malls and shop spaces is important and highly valued by the shopping mall owners,
facility managers and shop owners and operators.
As the shopping malls and shop spaces depend on your patronage to be successful in their business, your opinions and
feedback will help them to realise your support for green measures to be adopted in the shopping malls and shop spaces.
Your feedback can include the following:
1. Whether you feel the shopping malls or shop spaces are too cold (temperature of the air-conditioning is too low) or
too hot (air-conditioning temperature is too high) when you are wearing clothing appropriate for the season.
2. Whether you feel the shopping malls or shop spaces are too stuffy (insufficient ventilation or humidity is too high) or
too breezy (excess ventilation).
3. Whether you got sick after visiting the shopping malls or shop spaces, for example:
• You suffered from cold or flu symptoms as a result of feeling too cold in the shopping malls or shop spaces.
• You coughed frequently while visiting the shopping malls or shop spaces even though you were physically healthy
on that day, which may have been caused by poor indoor environment quality, such as insufficient oxygen or the
presence of VOC.
• You experienced unexplainable discomfort such as a headache, itchy eyes or other allergy symptoms while visiting
the shopping malls or shop spaces although you were physically healthy on that day, which may have been caused
by poor indoor environment quality such as presence of VOC or gas emitted from finishing materials.
4. Whether you feel the lighting in the shopping malls or shop spaces are too bright or too glaring which means that the
lighting level of the shop spaces may be too high for your comfort.
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in:
Customer incentive
schemes
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