You thought I had forgotten about plastic bags, didn't you?

It's been a while since I last reminded my treasured readers about how easy it is to avoid using plastic bags when shopping. Around our house, progress has stalled a bit as we work on how to bring the produce home and keep it from decaying without plastic bags, but I am confident that a solution will be discovered.

While we've been dealing with that, the Christian Science Monitor has been keeping its eye on the international scene. Apparently a plastic bag revolt is spreading across Britain:

Dumbstruck by what she'd seen off the Hawaiian coast during her year-long filmmaking trip, Hosking set up a local screening of her film and invited the town's 43 shopkeepers to come see where plastic bags end up.

All but seven of them showed up. At the end of the viewing, held in a local hall, Hosking called for a show of hands in support of a voluntary ban on plastic bags. Every single hand went up. The rest of the town's shopkeepers quickly followed suit. On May 1, Modbury won bragging rights as the first plastic-bag-free town in Europe.

Now, larger towns and even cities are calling up Hosking to ask how she did it. Supermarkets and other retailers are experimenting with plastic-bag-free days, reusable totes, or even buy-your-own bags to discourage usage.

If you're still haven't kicked the plastic bag habit, there's help over at Miss Malaprop. She highlights the gorgeous Envirosax bags available from Bright and Bold:

They're gorgeous (and/or handsome, for those of the masculine persuasion), they're apparently easy to store in a purse or backpack, and they're on sale. What more could you need?