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Mar 18, 2023

Plan To Ban Plastic Water Bottles Headed Back To Sandwich Town Meeting

Bottled water fills half an aisle in Stop & Shop. Sustainable Practices, the

Bottled water fills half an aisle in Stop & Shop.

Sustainable Practices, the environmental group seeking to reduce—and ultimately eliminate—plastics from Cape Cod's waste stream, has filed two citizens’ petitions to be considered at Sandwich's May Town Meeting.

The first and more familiar of the petitions asks, again, that Sandwich ban sales of small, single-use plastic water bottles (anything smaller than a gallon). Those in violation of the ban would be fined $150 for the second violation and $300 for the third and subsequent violations.

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