As the ban to banish single use plastic bags hots up, M & S announce it will charge its customers 5p for these bags and todays DAILY MAIL NEWS shows sickening pictures of a dead whale that must have suffered terribly from the amount of plastic bags found in its stomach. It is thought the bags floating in the water are mistaken by the whales for squid. Such pictures are harsh reminders of the untold damage plastic bags have on our wildlife.