David Hansen wrote:
Those who claim that waste projects are something from lentil
munching, woolly minded people who don't live in the real world
might like to look at the Daily Wail for today and their campaign
against plastic bags.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=519770&in_page_id=1770&ct= 5

Presumably the Daily Wail has gone soft for making this the main
story for today.

More likely that they got a whiff of Marks and Spencer's announcement (which
unsurprisingly occured the day after this story) that they were to start
charging for bags.

ITN do it all the time, then when the announcement(s) are made shortly
after, they gloatingly report, 'following *our* highlighting of this issue,
blah, blah, blah' making it look like they have made it happen, when in
reality, they couldn't give a toss.