it's nearly impossible to distinguish between jellyfish and floating plastic shopping bags. Fish eat thousands of tons of plastic a year, transferring it up the food chain to bigger fish and marine ...

Locals say it is a 'quirk' of the area that instead of using shopping bags people simply push their trollies home from the shops. They then leave them outside until they need them again.

Plastic shopping bags often end up in the trash or stuffed in a cupboard to use for another day. Others are returned to the grocery store to be recycled into something else such as new bags, ...

and shoulder bags Lauren Fischer is a Senior Editor who writes about shopping, products and deals with a focus on celebrities, beauty, fashion, parenting, and home. Prior to joining PEOPLE ...

Pictures show crowds of people in Liverpool ONE carrying several heavy shopping bags and some even had suitcases with them ready to pack their many purchases into. Here are some photos of a busy ...