Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Brownsville says NO MORE Plastic bags.

Brownsville is never going to be confused with Portland, San Franciscio or some other bucolic tree-hugging liberal city, but it's home to just as many crunchy ecological activists as any yurt-living commune, apparently. Yesterday its version of the city council voted to ban merchants from using plastic bags except for some limited purposes. The ban is voluntary this year, and mandatory starting in 2011, the Brownsville Herald reports...Link

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