We support New York City council to enact legislation that requires a 10 cent minimum charge for carry out bags in New York City grocery and retail stores, and stores would retain the entire amount of the charge.
Why is this important?
We believe starting to charge plastic bags will dramatically reduce single-use plastic and paper bags in New York City by forcing shoppers to think twice about whether they need a bag and encourage reducing, reusing plastic bags. As the largest city in the United States, New York is taking too slow and too long to adopt legislation restricting the use of bags.
