Proposal to ban plastic bags for retail sales scheduled for 1st review by Town Council - Oct 19

The plastic bag proposal is up for the Town Council consideration on Wednesday, Oct 19, 2016.

You can review the full bylaw language here (PDF embedded)

Note: there are two hearing in the bylaw approval process. This is the first scheduled hearing. The motion would be to move this to a second hearing or to make changes and move it. At the second hearing, the voting would be for the final approval or rejection.





The proposal was presented by FHS students at the Sep 27, 2016 meeting. You can find the meeting summary and a link to their presentation document here
http://www.franklinmatters.org/2016/09/town-council-recognizes-helen-huang-and.html

some of the FHS students making the plastic bag ban proposal to the Town Council