City-wide ban plastic bags less than 2.25 mils

City-wide ban on all PE bags; 10-cent fee on paper bags

Town-wide ban on all PE bags; minimum 10-cent fee on paper

Town-wide ban on all PE bags; minimum 15-cent fee on paper

Town-wide ban on all PE bags; 10-cent fee on paper bags

Town-wide pan on all PE bags

Town-wide ban on all PE bags

City-wide 5-cent tax on plastic bags less than 4 mils

City-wide ban on all PE bags

City-wide ban on plastic bags less than 2.25 mils thick (language not specified in ordinance); minimum 15-cent fee per bag

Borough-wide ban on all PE bags

City-wide 5-cent tax on plastic bags less than 4 mils

City Council repealed plastic bag ban; following county-wide waste management plan that gives businesses choice to either stop offering bags for free and implement a recycling program or charge $0.10 per bag

City-wide ban on plastic bags less than 2.25 mils thick (language not specified in ordinance)

Ban on all plastic bags

County-wide 5-cent tax on plastic bags less than 4 mils

Ban on all plastic bags

City-wide ban on all PE bags; 12-cent tax on paper

Town-wide ban on plastic bags less than 2.25 mils thick (language not specified in ordinance)

15-cent tax on paper bags, ban on plastic bags

25-cent tax on paper bags

City-wide 5-cent tax on plastic bags less than 4 mils

• Types of materials banned:
  • “Single-use” plastic bags (including biodegradable/compostable plastic)
• Exemptions:
  • “Single-use” bags used for/to:
    • Package loose, bulk items such as produce, nuts,
      grains, candy, small hardware items, frozen foods,
      meat, poultry, fish, flowers, potted plants,
      bakery/prepared food, prescription drugs
      Laundry-dry cleaning bags
      Transport live fish
      Protect linens, bedding or other similar large items
      Protect newspapers or other printed materials to be left
      at customer’s residence or business
  • Sale of multiple, prepackaged “single-use” bags (for use at
    customer’s home or business)

*Note: The B.C. Government approved this bylaw on September 12, 2020. Local
council will still need to determine the effective date. Richmond indicates they are
waiting until the pandemic emergency ends to implement the bylaw.

Ban on all plastic bags

City-wide ban on plastic bags.

REPLACED 2021: https://www.northamptonma.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Item/15908?fileID=139558