SlogansSay no to plastic slogans
For "no plastic" campaigns, market awareness drives and the notice a shopkeeper pins near the counter.
English
Carry a bag, not a burden for the planet.
Plastic lasts for centuries. Your shopping lasts a day.
Refuse the bag. It is the easiest good deed of the day.
A cloth bag never clogged a drain.
Used for minutes. Left for generations. Skip the plastic.
Bring your own bottle.
The sea is not a dustbin.
Cows cannot read "do not eat". Bin it properly, or better, do not use it.
Your jute bag is doing important work.
Bring a bag. Leave a cleaner town.
One cloth bag retires a thousand plastic ones.
Say no at the counter. It is that simple.
Steel bottle, clear conscience.
The thaila your grandmother carried was right all along.
Plastic is light to carry and heavy to leave behind.
हिन्दी
थैला लेकर घर से निकलो, प्लास्टिक को ना कह दो।
कपड़े का थैला अपनाओ, प्लास्टिक को दूर भगाओ।
पल भर का इस्तेमाल, बरसों का नुकसान।
प्लास्टिक छोड़ो, प्रकृति से नाता जोड़ो।
जो गलता नहीं, वह चलता नहीं।
अपनी बोतल, अपना थैला, यही है सच्चा मेला।
नाली जाम, शहर परेशान: प्लास्टिक का यही अंजाम।
पॉलिथीन को कहो ना, धरती को कहो हाँ।
घर से थैला लेकर आओ, प्लास्टिक को दूर भगाओ।
दादी का थैला फिर अपनाओ, धरती का बोझ घटाओ।
पत्तल दोना अपनाओ, प्लास्टिक की थाली हटाओ।
एक थैला कपड़े का, सौ थैलियों की छुट्टी।
In common use (not written by us)
Say no to plastic. Say yes to cloth.
Plastic free is the way to be.
प्लास्टिक हटाओ, धरती बचाओ।
Nothing matches. Try a shorter word, or choose All.
Where these slogans help
At the shop counter, on a cloth bag, at the gate of a weekly market, in the school canteen, and on the invitation card of a function that has chosen steel glasses and leaf plates. Plastic slogans work when they sit next to the alternative. A notice that says "no plastic bags" beside a hook of cloth bags is a solution. The notice alone is only a refusal.
Write your own
Name the single-use item and its replacement in the same line: bag and thaila, bottle and steel bottle, plate and pattal, straw and no straw at all. The line "Thaila uthao, plastic hatao" works because both halves are things you can hold. If you are writing for a shop, keep it polite and thankful. The customer is being asked for a small effort and should feel good about making it.
- English pairs: bag and brag, plastic and drastic, refuse and reuse, cloth and both, carry and tarry.
- Hindi pairs: थैला and मैला, प्लास्टिक and घातक, अपनाओ and हटाओ, कपड़ा and झगड़ा.
For a shop or stall
- "Please bring your own bag. Thank you for helping us."
- "Cloth bags available here. Ask at the counter."
- "We pack in paper. Kindly carry it with care."
What to avoid
- Claims about what plastic does to health unless they come from your textbook or an official source.
- Shaming customers. Thank the ones who bring a bag, and the rest will follow.
Using these slogans
- For a shop notice, add what you offer instead: "Please bring your own bag. Cloth bags available here."