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Smith is ready to amend NJ’s single-use plastic bag ban
Clip: 9/19/2022 | 4m 13sVideo has Closed Captions
Growing complaints that bags used by delivery services are piling up
After the complaints — and reusable bags — started piling up, Sen. Bob Smith says he’s tweaking the state’s single-use plastic bag ban. Smith (D-Middlesex) wants to amend the bill, to give grocery delivery services more options to reduce the glut of recyclable bags customers are given with each order.
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Smith is ready to amend NJ’s single-use plastic bag ban
Clip: 9/19/2022 | 4m 13sVideo has Closed Captions
After the complaints — and reusable bags — started piling up, Sen. Bob Smith says he’s tweaking the state’s single-use plastic bag ban. Smith (D-Middlesex) wants to amend the bill, to give grocery delivery services more options to reduce the glut of recyclable bags customers are given with each order.
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Big increase in calls to new national crisis hotline
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Clip: 9/19/2022 | 1m 26s | In New Jersey, call volume rose by 20% (1m 26s)
Business Report: Grim view of NJ economy
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Clip: 9/19/2022 | 2m 52s | Survey says 68% of NJ business executives believe US economy is in recession (2m 52s)
Cooper University Health Care’s major expansion in Camden
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Clip: 9/19/2022 | 4m 16s | Three clinical buildings will be added as part of $2B project (4m 16s)
Fears of rising health costs for county, municipal workers
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Clip: 9/19/2022 | 4m 9s | State workers last week agreed to a 3% increase (4m 9s)
'Life-threatening, catastrophic flooding' in Puerto Rico
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Clip: 9/19/2022 | 1m 28s | The storm knocked out the island's power grid (1m 28s)
Party strategists analyze the midterm landscape
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Clip: 9/19/2022 | 9m 17s | A lot has changed with seven weeks to go to Election Day (9m 17s)
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