1/8/2003: Bag collector

[bobspoon]

Originally posted by tpsreport
And this is newsworthy how?

This lady is from England, and was in the news because a national supermarket launched a competition to find the person with the most stashed plastic bags in the country, and her boyfriend nominated her.

I hear you ask, But Why? Because that particular supermarket is launching a new type of re-usable plastic bag for it's customers, which they hope will stop people using hundreds of bags each every year which just take up landfill.

So nope, it was nothing interesting.

I suppose the only thing that caught my lazy eye was that in the OTHER picture I saw of this news extravaganza there were loads of the supermarket's own-brand bags stuffed strategically into the heap, whereas I see none at all here.