It doesn't look like much: a beige cotton tote with a rope handle, reminiscent of '70s bookbags. Chocolate piping sets off the brown slogan appliquéd on the front in an offbeat curlicue font: "I am not a plastic bag." And yet the homely [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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I’m very impressed by the author’s knowledge of the British press. Spitalfields Market though, while being made up of almost entirely small producers, is not and does not claim to be a market of eco-friendly traders. I would like to know, therefore, where the author found that impression. That said, it is a market which I love and visit regularly!
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