It has been three years since Mayor Mancini and the Long Beach Township Board of Commissioners passed a plastic bag ban, and an effort by Garden Club of Long Beach Island members with other environmental organizations to have all LBI municipalities to enact this measure followed. Harvey Cedars and Beach Haven later came on board, passing bans along with Stafford Township on the mainland.

The Garden Club of LBI showed the film “A Plastic Ocean” five times on our Island to spread the word.