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[Dan Goodman]

WORLD WIDE WORDS        ISSUE 409        Saturday 11 September 2004
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        [...]
PLASTIC SNOW  An article in the New Scientist this week about the
pollution caused by disposable plastic bags gave several names for
the visual pollution of bags that have been blown by the wind and
caught in trees. The Irish term for this white flapping plastic is
"witches' knickers", while in China it's "white pollution" and in
South Africa "the national flower". We don't seem to have a name
for it in the UK, though we do use the Irish one on occasion. What
names, if any, are common in other countries?
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