A typical British family heads home laden with plastic bags packed full of the weekly supermarket shop...
Cut to the haunting image of a sea turtle, thousands of miles away, struggling through the deep ocean waters as discarded plastic bags wrap themselves around its flippers and body.
These majestic animals are dying in alarming numbers because they mistake the flimsy translucent bags - which could in theory come from British supermarkets - for jellyfish, a key element of their diet.
A British family on their weekly shop - but their bags could be killing our wildlife
A rare turtle swims through the ocean - but the plastic bag in its gut will kill it
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-519770/Banish-The-Bags-The-Mail-launches-campaign-clean-country---planet.html#ixzz1vhgo9HkX
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