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A decade after Concord’s landmark ban on bottled water, plastic pollution remains a scourge

Por: The Boston Globe Nation February 14, 2023

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CONCORD — On a spring night in 2012, Janet Rothrock stood up at a sharply divided Town Meeting and vowed that if her neighbors joined her in approving the nation’s first municipal ban on the sale of single-use water bottles, their vote would send a stark message to the world.Victory, she and other environmental advocates hoped, would spur other towns, states, and ultimately nations to issue similar bans — perhaps ultimately mounting enough... + full article



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