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Bill would prohibit single-use carry-out plastic bags at retail stores like Walmart and Target.
Massachusetts is advancing a $3.64 billion bill to ban single-use plastic bags statewide.
KEY POINTS
- The bill would require a minimum 10-cent fee for each recycled paper bag at retailers.
- Half of the paper bag fee would fund a new state Plastics Environmental Protection Fund.
- Small stores with one location and 10 or fewer employees are exempt from the bag fee requirement.
- Over 160 Massachusetts communities already have local bans on single-use plastic shopping bags.
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