They fear a plastic look and that the downtown will wind up looking like Pier Village.

WSJ: Battle of the Beach

They live in homemade dome tents built with sticks and hung with pieces of plastic or a cloth flapping in the wind, feeble shelter from scorching daytime temperatures that reach 120 degrees.

NPR: Somalia Struggles to Cope with Drought

In 2009, the company launched the evolve product line which uses 25 percent less plastic and is made in a facility that is partially powered by wind energy.

FORBES: Ziploc launches new recycling program

The government has always been keen to keep Rwanda clean and correspondents say the capital, Kigali, is much cleaner than other African cities, where thin blue plastic bags can been seen in fields and on trees fluttering in the wind.

BBC: Rwanda gets tough on plastic bags

Plastic bags in our oceans might prove to be a cause for celebration and make wind power a much more attractive economic proposition than it is today.

CNN: Where to store wind-powered energy? Under water!