Plastic bags apparently do not kill hundreds of thousands of seabirds and other animals, according to the Times in the U.K. The paper traces the bag’s deadly reputation to a misquoted study that blamed discarded fishing nets for killing numerous animals.
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No disrespect to you Shirley, and I think you meant this as tongue-in-cheek, but the basis of the Times Online article is a little questionable. I just left a fairly long comment at the site going into more detail.
Apparently, this Lord Taverne has raised a stink in British ecopolitics before with his vocal support of GMOs.