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PL 2009, Resolve 54

Work Group To Design and Implement a
Statewide Disposable Checkout Bag Reduction Campaign

 

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Got Your Bags?

The reusable bag working group consisting of business leaders, grocery and retail associations, government officials, and environmental advocates, announced their campaign to encourage increased reusable bag use thereby reducing single use checkout bags by 33% by 2012 with the launch of a public education campaign,
Got Your Bags, Maine?

Press Release, Got Your Bags, Maine? to Launch, November 9, 2009

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/gotyourbagsmaine

Report to Legislature, January 25, 2010

About Resolve 54

Last session’s LD 367 would have placed a 10-cent fee on the consumer for each disposable checkout bag received at a grocery or retail store. In the end, the Legislature approved P.L. 2009, Resolve 54 directing SPO to convene a work group to design and implement a statewide disposable checkout bag reduction campaign.

SPO Work Group Members

The following industry, environmental, and state agencies have been participating in the working group:

Maine Grocers Association
Maine Merchants Association
Maine Chamber of Commerce
Maine Oil Dealers Association
Natural Resources Council of Maine
Walmart
Hannaford
Rite Aid
American Chemistry Council
Department of Environmental Protection
State Planning Office