Live in London? Here's your chance to tell your council if you'd like plastic bags banned across the capital or - alternatively - heavily taxed like they are in Ireland. Click here to find out more, and here to submit your views directly. Personally, the over-consumption of plastic bags doesn't keep me awake at night in the same way as bigger carbon cutting tricks do. Still, most do use oil - some are corn starch - and I don't think anyone apart from the dude in American Beauty would consider bags swirling down our streets 'beautiful'. You can read more about Modbury, the Devon town that kicked off the bag-banning trend, here. [via Tom Taylor's ever useful Delicious links]
Check out the review about this product at SustainLane; http://www.sustainlane.com/reviews/i'm-not-a-plastic-bag/OUPP2JOSTXDLRUPDVFAOBMOSV3MC
Posted by: Pratima | November 14, 2007 at 11:34 AM