LD 842
Solid Waste/Plastic Rings
An Act to Modify the Ban on Plastic Rings and Other Plastic Holding Devices
Session
1991
Status
House Motion: Enactment of Emergency Legislation
Correct Vote: NO
House Vote: June 6, 1991; Yes 99, No 47,Absent 5; Motion Failed (2/3 vote required for emergency passage)
Senate Motion: Passage to be Engrossed
Correct Vote: NO
Senate Vote: June 10, 1991; Yes 26, No 7, Absent 2; Motion Prevailed.
This bill undermined the State’s ban on “six-pack yokes” and other plastic devices used to hold beverage containers together. These devices had been banned by an earlier Legislature because of the danger that they pose to wildlife and their contribution to Maine’s solid waste disposal problems. This bill delayed the ban, which was to have taken affect on July 1, 1991. It provided manufacturers with broad exemptions from the original ban. The bill was passed and signed into law.
99 
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