The Great Plastic Bag Plague

By Tara Lohan, AlterNet
Posted on September 5, 2007, Printed on September 5, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/61607/

They're ubiquitous. They accompany us home each time we shop. They swirl about our oceans, they cling to our trees, they drift down our city sidewalks, they adorn metal fences, they're consumed by animals.

They are an urban tumbleweed, a flag of the consumer era.