1.   A discarded bag of potato chips becomes a feast.

2.   She and her two sisters would leap into a pit fashioned from sand carried from a nearby park in discarded bags of potato chips.

3.   The government hopes the tax will prevent discarded bags from polluting waterways and littering the countryside, where they are a common sight fluttering in trees and hedges.

4.   A polio victim who lost use of both his legs skids through the camp atop a discarded bag of donated American wheat.

5.   In the suburbs, trash rots in heaps and discarded plastic bags hang from trees like dead skin.

6.   Most refugees lived in flimsy tents made from discarded plastic bags which provided little shelter from subfreezing temperatures during winter and sizzling heat in summer.

7.   But most discarded bags remain on the streets or in garbage heaps since picking them up is uneconomical for the recyclers.

8.   Discarded plastic bags have also been reported to have clogged drinking water supply pipes, causing entire neighbourhoods to go without water for several days.

9.   Disturbed by the menace of discarded plastic bags, the Indian navy base in Bombay recently banned their use.

10.   Pollution from plastic bags reaches serious proportions in Bombay during the summer rains when thousands of discarded bags clog drains and cause flooding.