300 million pelicans? Pah. What 6 billion plastic bags really weigh

How many Jubs? What number of chicken's eggs? You demand answers - we give them

The splash story on one Sunday newspaper breezily informed us Brits used six billion fewer plastic bags this year than last, and that these weighed the same as "three million pelicans" - a grave naughtiness committed before El Reg's Standards Soviet."