Prizes are given for planting the most trees and picking up the largest number of plastic bags.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

Turtles choke on plastic bags and other garbage dumped into the ocean.

VOA: standard.2010.07.15

Locals joke that Yemeni trees are actually blue and red, the color of the plastic bags that you get when you buy qat, a mildly narcotic leaf, and the Yemeni national past time.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

Before hitting the rocks, climbers donned plastic gloves and garbage bags and sent trucks, loaded with about 400 bags to the local dump.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01