![]() Partnering with Keep America Beautiful, retailers are joining forces with industry wholesalers and producers to sponsor cleanups. The MPSA is spearheading an industry response to tackle this statewide littering problem, which includes plastic bottles, fast food and candy wrappers, paper and plastic cups, napkins, and cigarette butts. “They’re trying to solve the problem with a thing that is the least cause of it-and they’re not solving the problem,” says Mark Ferreira, owner of John’s Liquor Store in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Known as “nips” in the Bay State, sales of the small bottles have been banned in several communities as government officials blame them for a littering dilemma. spirits bottles have been in the crosshairs of Massachusetts’ legal system for years. “The industry is going to step in, and that’s the way we are addressing the issue. “The government has taken a pass on this,” says says Bob Mellion, executive director and general counsel for the Massachusetts Package Store Association (MPSA). Now, the beverage alcohol industry is pushing back. ![]() spirits bottles have become outlawed in Massachusetts due to a public policy resulting in a major litter problem. Small Spirits Bottle Ban In Massachusetts Draws Big Responseīeverage alcohol retailers claim a ban on “nips” is unfair and skirts a litter problem in Massachusetts.
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