Plastic shopping bags: The British make the move towards a ban, United States?

Ireland enacted a similar law, known as a "plastax" of 15 cents per bag and saw a 90% drop in the use of one-use plastic bags.

Other countries are following suit.

Dubbed the "urban tumbleweed," plastic bags are an environmental menace. Billions worldwide are produced with oil, an increasingly scarce resource, they clog waterways, litter trees and pollute our oceans killing thousands of birds and sea animals every year.

Modbury, in Britain, declared itself the first town in the British Isles to become plastic bag free. No doubt PM Brown's move will lead to an eventual all-out ban.

So Britain goes, hopefully soon will the United States? One could only hope.

Sean