Setting the bag limit on recycling

Thursday, April 14, 2005

Plastic bags litter the ground along highways. Blown by the wind, they get tangled up in fence rows and stuck in the underbrush. When they're not littering the ground, they're mostly being dumped in Cape Girardeau's trash and ultimately end up in a regional landfill.

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