According to Kelsey, the key to organizing your plastic bag collection is to fold each ... or repurpose an old pillowcase by cutting a hole in the bottom and hanging it on a hook.

Alongside this mound of waste are large industrial bags of clean sand that are intended to be used for covering the hole once it has been refilled with all the ripped plastic sacks and sand.

People in the UK have been paying extra for plastic bags in supermarkets for a decade now – but a loophole in the law means billions of bags are still being used. The plastic bag levy first came into ...