
The campaign started with a BBC producer's trip to Midway Atoll, where thousands of birds had died from ingesting bits of plastic. She went home, to her home village, and convinced the merchants to give plastic the heave-ho.
A year later, the reports from Modbury are good and available online at plasticbagfree.com While most storeowners switched to compostable-biodegradable bags made from cornstarch, even more shoppers decided they'd just take their own re-usable canvas bags to the stores with them.
This bag-free revolution was joined recently by Whole Foods and Wild Oats market.
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