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Brooklyn Councilman Brad Lander and Manhattan Councilwoman Margaret Chin—the architects of the city’s planned five-cent surcharge
on paper and plastic bags—accused Gov. Andrew Cuomo of suffocating both
local government and the planet by signing off on legislation blocking
the implementation of the statute.
Chin and Lander sold the fee, which was slated to take effect
tomorrow, as a way to encourage New Yorkers start carrying reusable
totes by obligating stores to charge customers an extra nickel for every
disposable carryout sack. The pair has long maintained that bags cling
to trees, clog storm trains, pack landfills, kill wildlife, accrue into
islands in the ocean and cost the city million of dollars each year to
eliminate.
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Source: The Observer (via The Empire Report)
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