A UK market town declares itself a plastic bag free zone

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SHOTLIST 1. Wide Town of Modbury in county of Devon, south west England. 2. Row of houses in town of Modbury 3. Banner with name of town. 4.Florist shop 5. Pan from shop to Post Office 6. Old bicycle outside Gift Shop 7. Close up woman with shopping basket 8. Zoom out from carrier bag to two woman shoppers 9. Woman shopper with colourful bag on her shoulder 10. Man and woman shoppers with white bags 11. Woman crossing street with white shopping bag. 12. Close up of white shopping bag, woman shopper walks away from camera past row of shops. 13. Wide of town. 14. Woman getting served in butcher's shop. 16. Close up woman putting wrapped meat into shopping basket. 17. Wide of woman in butcher shop 19. Rebecca Hosking, anti-plastic bag campaigner and local Modbury resident crosses street carrying re-useable 'Modbury' bag. 20. SOUNDBITE English Rebecca Hosking, anti-plastic bag campaigner and local Modbury resident. "The campaign took like wildfire around the town and the traders starting talking to each other and two days later I started going around other traders and as I walked in to their shops they started smiling and were going this is about the plastic bags isn't it? And so one by one I started ticking them off. And it was just really through conversation with them and explaining what plastic does to the marine environment and to the environment." 21. SOUND UP: Delicatessen customer talks to delicatessen owner Adam Mackgill. "What is your traditional pie? That one's a hand raised chicken and leek pie." 22. SOUNDBITE (English) Adam Mackgill Delicatessen owner: "This time of year when its quite quiet, I was using about three hundred counter bags which are the small plastic bags which I put the cheese and the meats in and between a hundred and a hundred and fifty carrier bags, plastic carrier bags, I was giving out a day. Now that we've gone over to using the corn starch ones, for the carrier bags I'm charging five pence, cost price, I'm giving out two to five a day at most, so whereas I was personally releasing one hundred and fifty carrier bags into the environment be they into peoples' homes and everything now its just a maximum of five corn starch bags which are one hundred percent biodegradable." 23. Exterior of Gift Shop 24. Gift Shop owner Mandy Rolt serving customer. 25. SOUNDBITE (English): Mandy Rolt Gift Shop Owner: "Well everybody has united in this town which is incredible because before this happened we perhaps knew each other to say hello but now we've all actually become good friends and everybody has united in doing the same thing and been very, very positive and we've not had one single negative response which has been fantastic." 26. Co-op shop customer loading up bags with groceries. (Bags look plastic but are in fact de-gradable corn starch.) 27. Pan from outside of Co-Op shop to Tim Pierce, Chief Operating Officer Co-Op Supermarket. 28. Close up of Modbury bag saying 'Britain's first plastic shopping bag free town' on it. 30. SOUNDBITE (English): Tim Pierce, Chief Operating Officer Co-Op Supermarket. "I think that public pressure will start to mean that less and less plastic bags will be appearing in supermarkets generally. We're already seeing supermarkets who are starting to have plastic carrier bag free days, they're already encouraging customers to take 'bag for life' and charging them ten pence for that and I think the consumer is becoming more and more aware of the damage that plastic bags can do to the environment and to animals and that in itself will start to drive supermarkets generally to reduce the use of carrier bags." 31. Pan from dust bin to Chris Lucas, Waste and Recycling Officer, South Hams District Council. 33. Shoppers with cotton carrier bags. LEAD IN You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/2ba358d0814b7ac0889994edb1bf5576 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork