This is the trailer from Rebecca Hosking's excellent BBC documentary 'Message In The Waves', showing some of the effects of plastic bags in the environment.[+]
In early 2008, Jon Dee was featured on Sky News explaining the environmental impacts of plastic checkout bags and bag use reduction measures. This was in the run-up to a mooted decision on the part of government to legislate for the phase out of plastic bags in Australia.[+]
This video shows the Bryde’s whale who died after becoming stranded on a Cairns beach. The post-mortem found the whale’s stomach was tightly packed with six square metres of plastic, much of it plastic check-out bags.[+]
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