(Feb. 3, 2022) Bruce Mandel’s citizen’s petition to add plastic “nip” alcohol bottles and cigarette filters to the town’s single- use plastic ban is pitting environmentalists against package-store owners.
“I’m not trying to stop anyone from drinking or smoking. It’s the irresponsible behavior that causes the litter problem,” said Mandel, who helped start the plastics ban with a similar proposal banning the sale of plastic cups, plates, utensils and small water bottles approved by Town Meeting voters in 2018.
The argument comes down to pollution, on one hand, and business, on the other. But taking those plastic nips and cigarettes off the shelves isn’t sitting well with liquor-store owners, who argue that if Mandel’s article passes, they could be down one of their biggest sellers.
“I'm totally against it,” Chele Bayard, manager of Old South Liquors, said of the article. “It's going to cost us a lot of revenue. But more than revenue a lot of people buy nips because they know their limits. If they buy half a pint or a pint, they'll drink it all.”
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