Massachusetts state agencies will no longer be allowed to buy single-use plastic bottles, Governor Maura Healey announced in a speech at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York on Monday.
"In government, we have an obligation to stop contributing to this damage and chart a better path forward," Healey said in her speech. "So we are proud to become the first state to adopt a procurement ban on single-use plastic bottles."
Creating a Women's Rights History Trail will help increase tourism in Massachusetts, a state legislator said.
In May 2022, Governor Charlie Baker signed into law a bill creating a Women's Rights History Trail Task Force to come up with a "program … designating properties and sites that are historically and thematically associated with the struggle for women's rights and women's suffrage."
