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Focuses on the decrease in the quarterly profits of United States-based Clorox Co. due to charges related to the shutdown of a plastic bag factory. Percentage of the decrease in income; Maintenance of a full-year profit outlook.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including "More Deportations Follow Minor Crimes, Data Shows" in the April 7, 2014 issue, "Applications Fall, Admission Rate Rises as Cooper Union Charges Tuition" in the April 5, 2014 issue and "Ten Cents a Bag? That's About Right" in the April 8, 2014 issue.

One by one, Domanick Munoz pulled bloody and battered rooster bodies out of a pile of feathers, claws and beaks. The birds that were still gasping for life he put out of their misery, plunging a syringe of drugs into their gouged and lacerated bellies. Animal-cruelty officers with Dallas Animal Services took those that were already dead and gingerly placed them into large, black plastic garbage bags. Nearby, Sgt. Alfred Nunez of the Dallas police surveyed abandoned cars, empty beer bottles, boxes of razor blades, syringes, liquor bottles, marijuana and dozens of cages and makeshift coops with roosters inside. ''This is one huge mess,'' he said over the cacophony of crowing birds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Transportation Security Administration is introducing yet another security layer to the passenger-screening process. Now, in addition to removing shoes, belts and laptops and being limited to liquids of no more than 3.4 ounces in a zip-top plastic bag, passengers may be stopped if they are carrying what security personnel consider suspicious looking powder. Using a new kind of explosives-detection technology, the agency has begun screening certain powders at airport checkpoints by taking a sample of the powder and doing an on-the-spot test. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article comments on issues concerning the use of plastic bags around the world. It is stated that San Francisco has become the first major city in the U.S. to start banning nonbiodegradable plastic bags in its larger grocery stores and pharmacies. The Swedish company Ikea AB in March 2007 brought its campaign "Bag the Plastic Bag" to America to decrease the use of plastic bags. It is informed that the use of plastic bags dropped by 90 percent when Ireland slapped a tax on plastic bags.

The article reports on some new checkpoint rules announced by the airport authorities in the United States, Canada and Europe. On the basis of these rules, travelers would be allowed to carry three-ounce containers of toiletries in a small plastic bag. The U.S. Transportation Security Administration plans to keep the limit on liquids because equipment is not sufficient enough to detect liquid explosives.

Discusses how plastic bags and other light items are carried on the wind and come to rest bringing down an area's appearance. Comments from writer Ian Frazier, who has been removing plastic from trees; Efforts by Frazier to patent and market a bag-retrieving device he created; Assessment of the harm done to trees as minimal.