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Cleveland, OH) -- Lakewood City Council members are proposing a resolution to urge the county to impose a five-cent tax on disposable plastic bags. Councilmember Tristan Rader says it would help cut down on the amount of plastic ending up in Northern Ohio's waterways.file:\\X:\File_Processed\bagtax01_1.mp3 Q...support of it. 000:09Supporters say more than five million pounds of plastic pollution contaminates Lake Erie each year.
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