Banish The Bags: The Mail launches a campaign to clean up the country ... and the planet

The 13billion ways YOU can help

A typical British family heads home laden with plastic bags packed full of the weekly supermarket shop...

Cut to the haunting image of a sea turtle, thousands of miles away, struggling through the deep ocean waters as discarded plastic bags wrap themselves around its flippers and body.

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Sign the Daily Mail's online petition to banish plastic bags

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Banish The Bags: How the world shames Britain in dealing with 'plastic poison' bags

Britain lags behind the rest of the world in dealing with the 'plastic poison' caused by the distribution of billions of single-use carrier bags.

Consumers, governments and retailers around the globe have moved to banish the bags, a symbol of urban waste.

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Banish the bags: The amazing picture of 2lb of plastic poison found in whale's stomach

It looks like the kind of rubbish that piles up on waste ground or adorns hedgerows.

But this collection of plastic bags was found in a far more disturbing place - the stomach of a minke whale washed up from the English Channel.

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Banish the Bags: Used for minutes but last 1,000 years... The life cycle of plastic bags

They are handed out in their billions, used for a few minutes then discarded to pollute the earth for hundreds of years. Here we trace the life cycle of a plastic bag.

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Banish the bags: Free reusable bag for EVERY reader

Here's your chance to help boost the Mail's Banish The Bags campaign - we've got an eco-friendly super-strong cotton carrier bag to give away FREE for every reader.

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Banish the bags: Free wallchart for your school and home

Each year, more than 13 billion plastic bags are given out by British shops.

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One small sacrifice for a better future

Today the Mail launches a major campaign to rid Britain of one of the great unnecessary pollutants of the modern world - the ubiquitous supermarket carrier bag.
Each year, 13billion "free" bags are handed out in these islands.

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Marks and Spencer joins The Mail's campaign to Banish the Bags by charging for them

Marks & Spencer will introduce a charge of 5p for the bags at its 600 UK food stores
Marks & Spencer is to stop offering free throwaway carrier bags in a landmark move to fight "plastic poison".

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G'day ILS, how are you? These are really great articles, "each one" full of different and great ideas to help the environment. Never thought about all the different ways that we can help to stop the problems that these things cause, or that there were so many problems associated with them. Makes you stop and think.

G'day Shanon, I am good thank you, how are you?...I think this is a great campaign and one we should all think seriously about, I was always a user of these plastic bags until about 6 months ago, now I only use the canvas bags, cost a little to get enough for the weekly shop but well worth it in the end...

Gordon Brown gives supermarkets one year to start charging for plastic bags ... or else

The Prime Minister is lending his voice to the Daily Mail's campaign against the blight of "plastic poison".

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Banish the Bags: B&Q joins war on plastic with carrier ban at every store

Free carrier bags are to be banned at all 320 B&Q stores as the Daily Mail campaign against "plastic poison" gathers momentum.

The DIY chain, part of the Kingfisher group, hands out 80million bags a year but says it is keen to "reduce environmental pollution".

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That's a great idea!