As of July 1, plastic bags are mostly illegal in Vermont and people cannot throw food scraps in the garbage.
These two laws, in the works for a while, were almost sidelined by COVID-19 but, as VTDigger reports (here), they have stayed in effect. Vermont has slowly been rolling out the nation’s most comprehensive composting requirement for a few years. Applying it to households is the final step.
New Hampshire’s Gov. Sununu, like many officials and some grocery chains, banned reusable bags in stores when the pandemic heat out of concern that they spread the virus. There are no studies that support this idea and there’s starting to be a push to overturn the ban, the argument being that a pandemic is no time to increase the amount of plastic-bag crap floating around in the world.
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Good for Vermont! It would be nice if New Hampshire followed suit and pursued comprehensive composting and banned the noxious plastic bags.
NH should ban plastic and require paper bags or at the very least campaign for paper only.
Why can’t we return to reusable bags? The clerks handle the plastic bags and then the customer takes custody of potentially contaminated plastic.
Paper or reusable…
I have been involved in industrial composting and recycling for 30 years, and I can assure you that Vermont’s socialist inspired compost program will eventually fall apart. If you think otherwise, it’s simply because your ignorant and determined (like most of your people), such that you believe only what you want to believe. However, I do agree that the paper vs. plastic option (for bags) might be a good idea. We’ll see!