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New York’s scheduled enforcement of a single-use plastic bag ban began Monday.
The ban, enacted months ago, was pushed off because of a lawsuit. State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos previously called the court’s decision a “vindication of New York state’s efforts to end the scourge of single-use plastic bags.”
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