After several years of campaigning to end plastic pollution, tens of thousands of handwritten letters to the state Legislature, the adoption of more than 55 local ordinances and a successful Senate vote in March, “the New Jersey Assembly has finally taken steps to move the single-use carryout bag and styrofoam ban forward,” Save Barnegat Bay Executive Director Britta Wenzel said in a message to supporters of the group, which endeavors to restore and protect Barnegat Bay and its ecosystem.
The legislation – S864/A1978 – would ban single-use plastic bags and polystyrene foam food containers, and make…
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