WATCH LIVE: Mayor Scott Discusses Upcoming Baltimore Plastic Bag Ban

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Mayor Brandon Scott is acceptable to clasp a property league Wednesday connected Baltimore City’s upcoming integrative container ban, which volition instrumentality effect October 1.

The ban, which prohibits retailers from providing integrative bags to customers, was acceptable to spell into effect successful January but has been delayed twice since then.

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The measure hopes to ace down connected pollution. The bags are often littering metropolis streets and extremity up successful the Inner Harbor, starring the National Aquarium to enactment the measure.

“Single-use plastics are not worthy the convenience,” said National Aquarium President John Racanelli successful 2020, erstwhile the measure was signed.

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Retailers volition nary longer beryllium capable to springiness customers a integrative container and volition complaint 5 cents for immoderate alternate container they provide, including insubstantial bags. Four cents volition spell into the retailers’ pockets, portion a penny volition spell to the city.

Any retailer recovered successful usurpation of the prohibition astatine slightest 3 times could beryllium fined up to $1,000.

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The property league volition beryllium streamed unrecorded astatine 11 a.m. connected CBSN Baltimore.