A selection of international and international coverage of the plastic bag problem

(The most recent news is at the top; for more news, good and bad, click the buttons at the bottom of this page.)

Huffington Post - Plastic and the Great Recycling Swindle, Nov 2011

Daily Mail: Boris Calls for Plastic Bag Ban in London, Aug 2011

Treehugger: Ban the Bag, Aug 2011

Daily Mail: Tide of Killer Bags, Aug 2011

The Londonist: London 2012: A Plastic-Bag-Free Games? Jul 2011

Richmond & Twickenham Times: Call for Plastic Bag Free Olympics, Nov 2010

The Times: Boris Johnson sets an Olympic goal for London to be Britain’s first plastic bag-free city, January 2010

ACS, Plastic Bag Free Day, September 2009

BBC, Toxic waste returns from Brazil, August 2009

Daily Mail, Tesco accused of spinning plastic bag figures to look as if stores had cut use by half, August 2009

BBC, Retailers miss plastic bag target, July 2009

The Guardian, Plastic bag revolt halves use, July 2009
 
The Guardian, How to be a Green School,  July 2009

The Independent, The world's rubbish dump: a garbage tip that stretches from Hawaii  - A "plastic soup" of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is growing, February 2008)

Daily Mail campaign on plastic bags, February 2008
For excellent coverage of the plastic bag issue in the Daily Mail, with useful facts, stats, pics, and links, click here, here and here.