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War on Plastic Bags Reaches Beacon Hill

Opponents of thin-film plastic bags used at grocery stores and drug stores are trying to ban them statewide and impose a 10-cent fee on other types of bags, too. In recent years some individual towns and cities in Massachusetts have banned thin-film plastic bags through Town Meeting or the city council, and some have not.

Opponents of thin-film plastic bags used at grocery stores and drug stores are trying to ban them statewide and impose a 10-cent fee on other types of bags, too. In recent years some individual towns and cities in Massachusetts have banned thin-film plastic bags through Town Meeting or the city council, and some have not.…