Adele Ferguson

Whale with 20 plastic bags revives calls for ban

WELL, THERE GOES the Seattle Times again, pushing the City Council to ban plastic bags only two years after voters said fuhgeddaboutit.

It apparently was driven to take up the cudgel again by the finding in West Seattle last year of a beached whale that had more than 20 plastic bags in its stomach.

Now I like whales as much as anybody, but I would be curious to know what kind of bags they were so their source could be identified. Campaigns to ban plastic bags are chiefly aimed at those in supermarkets but I receive my daily copy of The Times in...