Asheville City Council Meeting 10/11/22

Join MountainTrue, the Sierra Club, NCPIRG, BeLoved, and the rest of the Plastic-Free WNC coalition at the October 11 Asheville City Council Meeting and show your support for an ordinance that would ban single-use plastic shopping bags and styrofoam in Asheville. We’ll gather at Pack’s Tavern at 5 p.m. to discuss key talking points before the meeting, and then we’ll head to City Hall as a group — wear green if you’re able to! 

Americans use 100 billion plastic bags and 25 billion styrofoam cups every year. Most of that ends up in landfills or as litter, polluting our forests and our environment. It’s time for the City of Asheville to join the more than 500 communities around the nation that have already passed plastic bag bans. The Plastic-Free WNC coalition is pushing the City of Asheville to pass a bill to ban single-use plastic bags and styrofoam while putting a 10-cent fee on paper bags. Come to the Asheville City Council meeting on October 11 to let City Council know this is a priority!