INFORMATIVE LINKS:

Inspired by “Message in the Waves”, the town of Modbury becomes the first in the United Kingdom to become plastic bag free. click here to view a new website about how the traders of Modbury South Devon turned their backs on plastic shopping bags
plasticbagfree.com

Press Modbury has recently recieved for banning plastic bags:
BBC news, "No Plastic Bags in Town's shops"

Guardian, "Welcome to Modbury. Just don't ask for a plastic bag"

Times, "Modbury first Town to Ban Plastic Bags"

CNN World, "English Town Bans Plastic Bags"

House of Strauss, "First Plastic Bag Free Town in Europe"

BBC, "No Plastic in Town's Shops"

Free Press, "English Town Bans Plastic Bags"
A small town in southwest Britain is banning plastic bags in a bid to help the environment and cut waste — a move environmentalists believe is a first for Europe.
Shopkeepers in Modbury, population 1,500, agreed to stop giving out disposable plastic bags to customers on Saturday. They said paper sacks and cloth carrier bags would be offered instead... USA TODAY, "English Town Bans Plastic Bags"

"No More Plastic Bags Please" Modbury Joins the Club

Boston Globe, "English Town Bans Plastic" April 28, 2007.
...The Modbury ban was the idea of Rebecca Hosking, a local resident who saw the effect of bags on marine life while working in the Pacific as a wildlife camerawoman....

The Global Marine Litter Information Gateway:
http://www.marine-litter.gpa.unep.org/

LA Times article about plastic pollution on and around Midway Atoll
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/oceans/la-me-ocean2aug02,0,3130914.story?page=4

From the Algalita Marine Research Organization
http://www.plasticdebris.org
(a detailed film about the problem)
http://www.algalita.org/pelagic_plastic_mov.html

A fairly comprehensive collection of articles and research on plastics.
Mindfully.org is to be used as a nonprofit research tool. There are presently over 4,300 files, and that number grows daily. 
http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/plastic.htm

Surfers Against Sewage -Return to Offender campaign (something to think about when you’re walking the dog)
http://www.surfersvillage.com/surfing/27396/news.htm

How to recycle in the UK - 
http://www.recycling-guide.org.uk/plastic.html

Fighting the plastic bag plague (checkout the “bags used this year” counter)
http://www.reusablebags.com/news.php

For information on the Australian plastic bag campaign from Planet Ark
http://www.planetark.com/campaignspage.cfm/newsid/7/story.htm

Reduce Reuse Recycle and other great work from Jack Johnson’s camp
http:/www.kokuahawaiifoundation.com

Auntie always appreciates a visit
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/