Dear Friends--Below is a link to this story on the popular movement against the use of plastic shopping bags in the UK. Tom
>Subject: [GreenYes] Plastic bag revolt spreads across Britain >Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:13:06 -0700 >From: "Justin Lehrer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Click here to read this story online: ><http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0620/p01s03-woeu.html>http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0620/p01s03-woeu.html > >Headline: Plastic bag revolt spreads across Britain > >Byline: Mark Rice-Oxley Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor > >Date: 06/20/2007 > >London - It was watching sea creatures choke on plastic bags in the >Pacific Ocean that finally persuaded Rebecca Hosking that enough was enough. .....part deleted.... >Within a few weeks of coming back, Hosking persuaded her hometown to ban >plastic bags outright and found herself in the vanguard of a sudden >British revulsion for that most disposable convenience of the throwaway >society. > >Stores, grass-roots groups, and citizens are joining forces to reduce >national consumption of plastic bags, and Hosking is fielding hundreds of >requests a day for guidance. ......rest deleted.... Tom Shelley 118 E. Court St. Ithaca, NY 14850 607 342-0864 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.myspace.com/99319958 _______________________________________________ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
