Increasingly, shops and municipalities are pursuing bans of plastic shopping bags altogether. Ad agency Mother London takes a different though still aggressive design approach in an effort to end the culture of the disposable bag. The second edition of the Uncarriable Carrier Bags shames plastic bag users by displaying outlines of questionable items such as knives, guns, heroin needles and massive sex toys that could be contained within.

Back in 2008, Mother London's first run of Uncarriable Carrier Bags took a less subtle approach with full branding identities for embarrassing fictional locations like a Phil Collins fanclub, a fast food place specializing in dolphin meat, and a sticky looking sperm bank.

When the Spanish light artists at Luz Interruptus installed and illuminated 800 condoms filled with blue water, they chose a politically charged location. A square in Madrid that previously housed a public swimming pool had been closed two years earlier by local politicians. Even worse, new plans to develop the square into a tourist market would take the space from locals completely. To reference the need for community recreation, and the history of the square, the artists designed and installed an interactive sculpture called "Prophylactic rain that doesn’t wet anything" with the help of a few local kids.