First bottles, now bags. The UK’s mass-circulation conservative Daily Mail newspaper has today launched a “Banish the Bags” campaign to rid the country of plastic bags.
The front cover of the paper has a photo of a photogenic family laden down with orange carrier bags after a supermarket shop, followed by an equally large photo of a sea turtle drowning after swallowing a plastic bag.
It looks like the Mail missed last week’s anti plastic bottle campaign, and is running fast to catch up. The Blog is on holiday, but has been shaken awake by the crashing noise of bandwagons being jumped on.
What really drives me mad about all this is shouldn’t they get the companies that use so much unnecessary packaging in food and domestic products to reduce this first and then worry about reducing the use of plastic bags. If they did that then we the consumer wouldn’t need so many bags.
The reality is the newspaper in question (like many others) is just jumping on the bandwagon with this campaign.