HARTFORD, Conn. – The Senate voted 29-2 Wednesday to advance a bill that requires a 50-percent reduction by 2021 in the distribution of paper and plastic single-use carryout bags from the grocery and retail industries.
Sen. Ted Kennedy Jr., co-chairman of the Environment Committee where the amended bill was crafted, called it an “historic agreement with grocery stores to voluntarily reduce by 33 percent single use bags” in the state of Connecticut.
The amended bill requires a phased-in transition to 100 percent recyclable, single-use carryout bags that contain not less than 80 percent post-consumer recycled materials, and to require the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the grocery and retail industries that provides for a 50-percent reduction in the distribution of paper bags and plastic single-use carryout bags by 2021.
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