| Green Bag Campaign
What would you do with $1 million? Here’s what the ACC is using it for.
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The American Chemistry Council has given another $300,000 to fight an effort to charge Seattle shoppers 20 cents for
each disposable paper or plastic bag. That brings the group's total contributions to the anti-bag fee campaign
to over $1 million. The contribution reported Wednesday comes days after the council, which represents the plastic
industry, gave an additional $500,000 to the Coalition to Stop The Bag Tax. The Seattle City Council passed an
ordinance last year requiring supermarkets, drugstores and convenience stores to charge a 20-cent bag fee, but the
opposition group collected enough signatures to put the question before voters Aug. 18. The pro-bag fee group, the
Seattle Green Bag campaign, has so far raised about $64,000. |
