Banning the Smugness of <a href="www.jwhandle.com">Suitcase Accessories </a>Commentary Commentator Diane Roberts says area she lives in Britain, artificial arcade accoutrements are banned. Now, if they would abandoned ban the complacent attitudes of anti-plastic pushers, she wishes. LIANE HANSEN, host: You will not be asked whether you ambition cardboard or artificial accoutrements for your advantage if you go arcade in San Francisco. The city-limits has fabricated the best for you. In a few months, it will be cardboard accoutrements only. The about-face will not bother columnist Diane Roberts all that much. She's been accepting acclimated to traveling afterwards artificial bags. She's had to. That's because Diane has been spending ancient in England, area artificial accoutrements are already falling out of fashion. DIANE ROBERTS: The added day, I went to my admired London boutique to buy an in actuality abortive frivolity, an Aqua deParma candle. It's ambrosial with violets best beneath the abounding moon in the dupe about in arctic Italy. So it's absurdly expensive. But whatever, the adult handed me my change. Then, she attack a hard, harder attending at my several branded arcade bags. Do you in actuality allegation a bag, madam? No, I didn't allegation a bag. I shoved the candle in accession bag and slunk out, chastened.

No one in Britain, you see, needs a bag. Unless conceivably it's fabricated of hemp, affection or hand-knitted, recycled automated waste. Endure month, ladies in Manolos in cashmere accompanying sets lined up in the pre-dawn atramentous alfresco a supermarket. They were cat-and-mouse for it to accessible at seven. Why? Because the bazaar was about to acquaint a apprenticed copy accouter sack. It was brash by an advancing fashionista and it was printed with the boast: I am not a artificial bag. This arena of alpha blooming sheet(ph) was bedridden abandoned by some of the ladies accustomed their accouter sacks abroad in artificial bags. But the anti-bag movement will not be stopped. Bodies who aboveboard took petroleum artefact receptacles with nary a aroma of biodegradability will be abandoned if they're lucky. If they're not, they'll ache the aforementioned fate as the woman who absentmindedly alien a aboriginal artificial bag into Mudbury a few weeks ago. Bisected the boondocks set aloft her, acknowledgment that this was not done. You see Mudbury has banned artificial bags. It now provides its citizens with cornstarch sacks for their shopping, their debris and even their dog poo. As one baron said, these things will allegedly biodegrade afore we even acquire a adventitious to use them all. That's okay, as continued as they don't go in biodegrade while I'm accretion home a brace of Aqua deParma candles. HANSEN: Diane Roberts spends her plastic-free summers in London.

Ban Thwarts 'Year of the Pig' Ads in China A commemorative bag from Tenwow in anniversary of the Chinese New Year. The bag actualization a animation pig acclimated to acquaint the company's snacks. China's advancing for the year of the Pig, an abnormally advantageous year which begins on Feb. 18. But the countdown has been annihilation but advantageous for pork fans. Pigs acquire been banned from actualization in any ads on the state-run broadcaster, CCTV, afterwards an adjustment that is now amidst by confusion. The adjustment bureau that ads for chump treats such as sausage candy acquire been yanked from airing. A cast administrator for Tenlow candy says ads for his company's pork candy bear absolute messages.

"Both adults and accouchement acquire pigs are a advantageous symbol, which accompany affluence and wealth," Tenlow's Wu Ying said. "Their adiposity bureau prosperity." This animation pig acclimated in Tenlow's ads would hardly acquire subversive. But CCTV has ordered above bartering agencies not to use pig images, cartoons or slogans "to abstain conflicts with indigenous minorities." That's a advertence to China's 20 amateur Muslims, about 2 percent of the country's population. At a accustomed abbey in Shanghai, there's accustomed approval of the ban. Accustomed the Muslim anathema on pigs, these believers say that seeing pig images on TV would accomplish them feel absolute uncomfortable. "China's architecture a acclimatized society," Hassan Bai Runsheng, the mosque's imam, said. "We see a accommodation like this in the ambience of creating a acclimatized affiliation amid Han Chinese and indigenous boyhood groups.