Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite
A plastic shopping bag is surrounded by a circle of liquid somewhere in Athmar Park. Dec. 3, 2019. Has anyone on this Zoom call actually touched one of these bags? asked Councilor Amy Phillips at an Avon Town Council meeting last month. I did, said Councilor Russell Andrade. My first impression was that it definitely felt like a disposable, one-use bag.
Avon banned plastic bags in 2018 from all retailers, with the purpose to protect the public health, safety and welfare from pollution-related to plastic bags. Many Colorado mountain towns have adopted similar laws to keep them out of rivers, trees, landfills and recycling centers the bags jam up machinery.