NEW BEDFORD - City councilors voted Thursday to table a vote to repeal the city's plastic shopping bag ban in light of a recent state Senate vote to ban their use throughout the state. The council had ...

DEAL YET, RIGHT? RIGHT. MIKE, I’M TOLD THAT A VOTE ON THIS ORDINANCE LIKELY WOULD NOT HAPPEN BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR BECAUSE THE COUNTY COUNCIL WANTS TIME TO HEAR FROM COUNTY RESIDENTS ABOUT IT.

Plastic shopping bags, which have low recycling rates and often become litter when they blow away in the wind, are among the biggest culprits of plastic pollution in the ocean and along shorelines.

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Over the past decade, many cities and states across the country have passed plastic bag bans and taxes in an effort to curb plastic pollution. While it still may be too early to gather definitive data ...

State and local policies to regulate the use of plastic bags have significantly reduced how many of them are found littered along U.S. shorelines — potentially cutting that type of waste in half in ...