IMAGE: Does this image show a tasty pink jellyfish, food for sea creatures such as Leatherback Sea Turtles? Nope, but it is a plastic bag, just like the ones we can get in grocery stores. Leatherbacks can mistakingly consume these plastic bags for jellyfish. This mistake will most likely lead to death because of impaction in the gut. Image © roberto rollemberg santana

Plastic bags are unnecessary and provide a false sense of need. I try to always carry a canvas bag when doing the consumer thing. Anyhow, both China and Austrialia will ban plastic bags. Australian Environment Minister Peter Garrett noted that:

“There are some 4 billion of these plastic bags floating around the place, getting into landfills, ending up affecting our wildlife, and showing up on our beaches while we are on holidays,”….

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