Proposed bill could kill initiative to ban single-used plastic bags in Bloomington

Specifically, local governments wouldn’t be able to adopt of enforce ordinances or resolutions to prohibit, restrict, charge fees for or tax the usage of these containers, should the law pass.

That means that efforts by the group Bring Your Bag Bloomington, which hopes to get an ordinance through city council that would first charge for and then ban single-use plastic bags, wouldn’t ever see a result.

And it means if any cities, counties, towns, etc. have similar ordinances (though none in Indiana do, to our knowledge), they wouldn’t be able to enforce them.