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Telluride Plastic Bag Ban: Mountain Town Looks To Ban Disposable Bags

First Posted: 09/13/10 06:12 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 06:05 PM ET

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The Telluride Watch:

TELLURIDE -- The prognosis for plastic bags in this community got a little poorer after the Telluride Town Council during a worksession on Tuesday directed staff to craft an ordinance that would ban retailers within town limits from distributing them. Period.

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SteveDenver
Progressive and liberal, just like Jesus Christ.
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03:05 PM on 07/16/2010
More power to Telluride! One way they can encourage retailers to give up the bags altogether is to require logo-branded bags OR retailers can face littering fines for any generic plastic bag found discarded on the road or landscape. IF a retailer's logo-branded bag is found as litter, that retailer can face littering fines. One smart Mexican grocer in Colorado offers their boxes or purchase of a reusable bag to customers. No plastic menace in sight.
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1differentdrummer
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06:07 AM on 07/16/2010
Why not just do that everywhere?
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SteveDenver
Progressive and liberal, just like Jesus Christ.
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03:05 PM on 07/16/2010
The plastic bag lobby is HUGE, it's petroleum-based, ya know.
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