Momentum is building across Connecticut to ban or charge fees on the estimated one billion plastic shopping bags used in this state every year – many of which end up being incinerated, littering the landscape or floating in Long Island Sound. Westport banned single-use plastic bags in 2009, and...
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Gregory B. Hladky, Hartford Courant
Wed, 09/19/2018 - 11:00am
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