Plan to eliminate plastics in Fulton County buildings delayed
Two weeks after agreeing to eliminate single-use plastics from county buildings, Fulton County commissioners suspended the program, saying they hadn't given it enough thought.
“I’m concerned we acted a little too quickly,” said County Commissioner Liz Hausmann, who had voted in favor of the change.
Hausmann said in an earlier conversation that she worried the move wouldn’t be cost effective, and the county should instead focus on recycling single-use plastics.
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Commissioner Bob Ellis said Wednesday that while the proposal may have been well-intended, it had been added to the commissioners’ agenda at the last minute and wasn’t well understood.
The original proposal, approved April 17, called for county buildings to eliminate items including plastic food containers, bags, cups and cutlery by the end of the year.
Commissioners will do more research into the issue and reconsider it in the future.
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Arielle Kass covers Gwinnett County for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She started at the paper in 2010, and has covered business and local government beats around metro Atlanta. Arielle is a graduate of Emory University.
