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Attempt to override veto of Omaha plastic bag ban fails

https://www.miltonscene.com/2019/03/milton-bags-plastic/

 An attempt to override Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert's veto of a ban on most single-use plastic bags by retailers has failed. The Omaha World-Herald reports that the override vote Tuesday by the City Council was 4-3, falling one vote short. The ban measure's sponsors, Councilmen Pete Festersen and Ben Gray, say they were unable to sway a fifth council member to switch positions. The original vote on the ban also was 4-3.  The measure would ban plastic bags from all retailers larger than 10,000 square feet by 2022. Stothert had questioned the measure's effectiveness in fighting litter.

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