1. Supermarket carrier bags are among the curses of the age, heedlessly discarded by shoppers in millions.

2. The American public watched, aghast, as the Israelis heedlessly slaughtered Lebanese civilians and leveled the country‘s infrastructure, and, for the most part, they didn‘t like what they saw.

3. Our friend Mrs Dorothy Rush, for example, relates a chilling tale involving a green bin of garden waste heartlessly rejected by her local council‘s garbage Gestapo on the grounds that it had been "contaminated" by a passing and, we can only assume, nocturnal Walkers crisp fancier who had, unbeknown to Mrs Rush, heedlessly tossed his empty bag in among the grass cuttings.

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