Bag Monster on TV at Coastal Cleanup Day

Plastic bag companies pay $180,625 to fight Seattle bag fee -

With all that cash, they could have provided more than 70,000 reusable ChicoBags to the people they claim they're trying to protect from an undue financial burden of 20 cents.

People can adapt to change, but it's obvious the plastic bag industry can't:
It's time they went the way of the dinosaurs!

So really, do plastic bag companies care about poor people?

"It's also worth noting that if the [plastic bag industry] had taken their dollars to Safeway, they could have purchased 180,625 cans of nourishing, environmentally friendly beans or 126,311 bags of Safeway yellow cornmeal. Or hell, some of each. They could have wrapped all of those bags and cans up in saran wrap, packaged the saran wrap bundles in flimsy beige plastic bags, and given that food to poor people."

Read the full blog entry here.

Read more about the dirty dealings of the plastic bag industry here.

Prince Charles newest passenger on "Plastic Bag Ban Wagon"

Surprise! He's really well spoken - maybe even too well. Using language outside the understanding of Bag Monsters, Prince Charlie makes a clear case for eliminating Bag Monsters.

"And our largest marine reptile, the magnificent leatherback turtle is particularly susceptible - their favourite food is jellyfish, which bears a striking similarity to a floating plastic bag - a bag that can block their gut and so they starve to death," he said.

"...an eyesore on the beaches, but at sea, largely out of sight and thus out of mind, the remnants of our throwaway society are causing incalculable suffering to turtles, whales and seabirds," he said.

"Here, in Britain, our largest native breeding seabird, the gannet, is equally threatened - over 90 per cent of the nests at Grassholm Island contain plastic debris which entangles the feet, wings and sometimes the beak of the chicks.

Read the full article here.

Plastic bag litter causes elderly man's death

SAN FRANCISCO -- A runaway police horse knocked down and killed a 78-year-old man in front of San Francisco's Candlestick Park before a 49er's game.

Police say Eugene Caldwell of Roseville hit his head and suffered critical injuries when he was struck by a horse just before 6 p.m. Friday in a charter bus parking lot.

Caldwell died about 1 a.m. Saturday at San Francisco General Hospital.

The 11-year-old male horse named Seattle was one of two police horses in the parking lot to prevent auto burglaries during Friday night's game between the San Francisco 49ers and the San Diego Chargers.

Police say the incident occurred just before game time when a white plastic bag blew into the horse bridle, which apparently spooked the police horse. The frightened animal knocked off its officer, ran across the parking lot, striking two people including Caldwell who fell and hit his head on the ground.

The other person struck by the horse, a 47-year-old Millbrae man, and the fallen officer were treated at the scene and released.

Police are investigating the incident.

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