“We picked up litter along this highway a couple of weeks ago, and I’m looking at plastic water bottles and bags, Styrofoam cups, and a lot of other trash.” “I’m driving down I-90 highway toward Westborough right now,” Mellion notes. plastic spirits bottles-known as nips-are just the tip of a litter problem in Massachusetts. The push to ban miniatures in Massachusetts has been going on since 2018 and there are only bans in five towns.”ĭiscarded empty 50-ml. “This year we are doing 25 to 30 of them across the state. “Every year we are doing more litter clean-ups,” says Rob Mellion, vice chairman of government affairs at American Beverage Licensees and president of the Massachusetts Package Store Association (MPSA).
The beverage alcohol industry’s three tiers have joined forces in Massachusetts to accelerate litter clean-up efforts along roadways and in parks in response to nip bans as part of a campaign called Pick Up Mass. (Photo by Portland Press Herald via Getty Images) in size (Fireball whisky minis pictured). In Rhode Island, the state legislature has introduced a bill banning spirits bottles smaller than 100-ml. Retailers, wholesalers and producers unite to nip the plan in the bud, citing clean-up efforts to combat the litter problem in both states. Mini Spirits Bottles Are On The Chopping Block In Massachusetts And Rhode Island
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