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Bottles Banned: AG Approves Concord's Water Bottle Bylaw

Effective Jan. 1, 2013, you won't be able to purchase non-sparkling, unflavored drinking water in polyethylene terephthalate bottles of one liter or less.

The Attorney General's Office today issued its approval of Concord's water-bottle banning bylaw.

The bylaw, , will prohibit the sale of non-sparkling, unflavored drinking water in a polyethylene terephthalate bottle of one liter or less.

According to a letter to the town announcing the approval, the analysis and approval was influenced by the Supereme Court's decision that a Minnesota law banning retail sale of milk in non-returnable, non-refillable plastic containers did not violate the federal equal protection or due process clauses or unlawfully burden interstate commerce.

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To read the AG's letter, click the PDF posted to your right.

Martha Coakley's office, due to inadequate language in previous iterations of the bylaw.

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