50 Reasons to Stop Using Plastic Bags

When I first came to Morocco and traveled from Casablanca to Fez on the train, what I saw from the window were hundreds of black plastic bags littering the landscape. They were stuck to the scrub brush, blowing around the fields and even flying high in the air. It looked like somebody had dropped a bomb of bags on the countryside.
You can't go to a store anywhere that a plastic bag isn't offered or your purchase isn't squirreled away in the plastic folds before you can say no. Not all efforts to refuse the bag are successful.

So, sometimes you come across an article that's just too timely not to share. Plastic bags are a blight on the whole planet, not just Morocco, and it's time we thought seriously about a better way to transport our goods. Maybe it's time to bring back the straw basket? And those canvas bags are good for more than library books and beachwear. We have 50 reasons why we should start thinking in a new direction.
By Linda Hart.