This is not just an American problem. It is global.I am oh so familiar with all this in Vietnam. A population of some 80 million using untold thousands of plastic bags & bottles per day. There are no paper bags here & drinking water can't be trusted. The streets are full of eateries dishing everything out in plastic bags & styrofoam. And there is so little awareness or concern.They like the "convenience."

I pick up plastic of the local beach every day & do a lot to raise awareness here - even staged a national TV beach pick-up/interview for World Oceans Day, but my work feels like a drop in the ocean, compared to the daily tidal wave of plastic.

And then there are all the backpackers - horrifying how many plastic water bottles they consume & throw throughout Asia..

Wholeheartedly agree, Anna. Enclosing/caging any wild animal or bird is a crime. We have to champion them in every way we can.