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N.C. lawmaker wants plastic bags banned at coast

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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

(Updated 10:33 am)

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RALEIGH (AP) — A North Carolina legislator wants to ban plastic shopping bags in counties along the Outer Banks, saying they are a trashy eyesore when blowing along beaches.

The Charlotte Observer reported Wednesday that the ban is a pilot program being pushed by state Senate leader Marc Basnight, D-Dare. Basnight wants shoppers in Dare, Currituck and Hyde counties to be given bags made of 100 percent recycled paper.

Basnight said he began using paper bags for takeout orders last week in his Nags Head restaurant. Bags that get out of trash cans pollute the beauty that Outer Banks businesses are promoting to tourists, he said.

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thestatelottery

May 13, 2009 - 10:46 am EDT

Great idea! People use too many plastic bags for no good reason.

elsoots

May 13, 2009 - 12:35 pm EDT

It should be state wide. paper bag are better.

jeepdriver

May 13, 2009 - 12:42 pm EDT

Not only do plastic bags pollute but the are an extreme danger to the fisheries and wildlife.
Lets push our legislature to ban plastic bags statewide or impose a heavy tax on the meerchants. Any responsible citizen can purchase reuseable bags from groceries and that should be mandated.