Friday, December 30, 2011

Tide of plastic bags that started wave of revulsion


Since Rebecca Hosking reported the plastic pollution in the Pacific, levies and bans on single-use bags have spread

Plastic bags became almost a national symbol of waste and decadence thanks to BBC camerawoman Rebecca Hosking, who travelled to the remote Pacific island of Midway to film a nature documentary.

As the Guardian reported at the time: "Instead of finding some prelapsarian wilderness, she and a colleague were confronted with the horror of hundreds of albatrosses lying on the sand.

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