Plastic bags are killing marine life. Colliers County catches on.

I just read a story by Eric Staats in the Naples Daily News about how the Colliers County tourism promotion guys had to give up their plans to give away plastic bags to tourists for shell collection when the county environment experts intervened. Nancy Payton, field representative for the Florida Wildlife Federation praised the decision to pull the bags off the beach. Like most folks in the US they appear not to be aware that for just a little more than the plastic bags were costing them, they could have imported re-usable fabric bags from us. Attractive totes like the one you see in the picture, which would have been carried home by tourists, who would have become walking billboards for the Colliers County tourism message every time they re-used the bags. I’m sure if they’d known how attractive and economical our bags are; see them at http://www.badlani.com/bags ; they’d have opted for them. I’m just sending a mail to Eric Staats hoping he will pass on the message.