Virginia Beach environmental group pushes for plastic bag usage fee

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Environmentalists in Virginia Beach are calling for the city to enforce a fee on single-use plastic bags in hopes of encouraging more reusable bag use.

“It really is pretty simple. We see plastic bags as a problem,” said Dylan Mason, who’s a public policy manager at Lynnhaven River Now.

The Lynnhaven River Now nonprofit says Virginia Beach can reduce plastic bag pollution by passing an ordinance placing a five-cent fee on single-use plastic bags…

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