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First town in UK to become Plastic Bag Free:

Modbury Traders (right) hold their fair trade linen bags proudly in May as the first town in UK to become plastic shopping bag free

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BBC, "Town dumps plastic bags"

Plastic bag revolt spreads across Britain
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2007-06-20-plastic-bag-britain_N.htm

Green Crusader: The women who became a bag lady
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/wildlife/article2499295.ece

Carrying Conviction, Wednesday May 16th, 2007.
A small town in Devon has become the first place in Europe to turn its back on plastic shopping bags. But how did it do it? Rebecca Hosking, the local activist who galvanised traders and shoppers, explains. The Guardian

World ask town that banned the plastic bag: how can we do it too?
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/waste/story/0,,2077992,00.html

Could you live without your carrier
This week M&S put a 5p charge on plastic bags. But here, the Mail visits the first town in Britain to ban them altogether http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=457273&in_page_id=1770

Western Morning News, "Town Bags a Green Image"

Store in England bans plastic bags and offers cloth sacks instead
Front page / World
04/28/2007 17:20

Welcome to Modbury. Just don't ask for a plastic bag
Saturday April 28, 2007
The Guardian

Modbury (pop 1,553) is first to ban plastic bags
From The Times
April 28, 2007

BBC news, "No Plastic Bags in Town's shops"

BBC, "No Plastic in Town's Shops"
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"

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 camera woman...

last updated October 5th, 2007.

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