Plastic Bag Ban

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About 60 of 351 MA cities and towns have shopping bag laws, banning to a varying degree or taxing plastic bags or non-reusable shopping bags. A quick breakdown is available at BagLaws.com, a web site designed to help retailers comply with shopping bag laws. State legislation has also been proposed. Town-by-town legislative details can be found at MassGreen.org, an advocacy organization that favors plastic bag bans.

Surrounding towns with shopping bag laws include:

Arguments pro and contra can be found in the News & Editorials below.

Lexington waste, recycling, trash

About an equal quantity of waste and of recycling are discarded in Lexington curbside, along with yard waste. The Town maintains a recycling and yard waste collection point on Hartwell Ave.

Waste is trucked to the Wheelabrator North Andover incinerator. After incineration, the volume of trash is reduced by 2/3. The resulting ash is transported to an in-state monofill. Current monofills exist in Shrewsbury, Saugus, Peabody.

Thin film is sometimes discarded in the recycling bins, but is considered a contaminant for recycling. Residents should discard thin film plastic with the trash.

Lexington Reports

None as of 2/4/18.

Massachusetts Reports

State legislation is pending.

National & International Reports

News & Editorials

2017

2015

Advocacy