As editor of Plastics News, I scan scores of Web sites, emails and news releases daily, and stay in constant touch with our network of global staff reporters and correspondents -- the largest reporting team in the plastics industry. I distill the more interesting items into commentary for this blog. Plastics News, part of Crain Communications Inc., began publishing weekly news in 1989, and launched a bilingual China site in mid-2005. In 2007, Crain acquired the two leading English-language plastics publications in Europe - Plastics & Rubber Weekly and the monthly European Plastics News.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has dropped his proposal to place a 5 cent tax on plastic bags, according to several news Web sites.
Council Speaker Christine Quinn opposed the plastic bag fee, telling the mayor that the majority of council members would not support legislation that they thought would be seen as a sales tax on food.
Will that attitude carry over to other communities where local mayors and councils are considering bag taxes?
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