Anya Hindmarch can design as many bags as she wants – it’s not going to solve the problems caused by plastic bags until people start using them to put their shopping in instead of using them as status symbols or trying to flog them on eBay. The whole ‘not a plastic bag’ story has left me frothing with barely-contained green rage, so I was happy to read a truly positive story in the Independent yesterday; the town of Modbury in Devon has banished plastic bags.