Article 42, A Plastic Bag Ban, Passes Town Meeting

Sustainable Duxbury's Citizen's Petition to ban thin-filmed, single use plastic carry out bags, passed town meeting approval on Monday evening, March 13, 2017. We are very pleased that we are joining 42 other communities in Massachusetts in passing such a ban. We are the first town to pass one in 2017 with many more towns to follow. You can read the bylaw here along with an explanation here.

In the meantime, you can read about Newport, Rhode Island, in Eco RI News, who passed a plastic bag ban March 8. Their story is similar to ours and is only the beginning of a very large movement to rid the environment of these dangerous plastics.