In Defense of Plastic Bags
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.