Great Barrington, Massachusetts is holding a special town meeting Monday night to revisit its May vote to ban single use plastic water bottles.
Environmental activist are eager to maintain the ban, while some small local businesses fighting to continue sales of bottled water.
Great Barrington selectboard chair Stephen Bannon says he expects the meeting to be well attended. He says special meetings are a rarity in the town of about 7,000.
“The town tries to avoid it because usually we get everything done at our town meeting in May.”
337 signatures were collected calling for the second town meeting in 2018 — well over the 200 required. It will be held at Monument Mountain Regional High School at 6 p.m. Monday. Great Barrington is one of a handful of localities in the U.S. to enact such a plastic bottle ban.
