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Article: Bags in short supply ; Pay-as-you-throw has residents scrambling
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- Concord Monitor
- Article date:
- July 2, 2009
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By the time Clara Brogan got to South Street Market, she was
frustrated. It was the fourth store she had visited in a quest to
find one that sold Concord's purple pay-as-you-throw trash bags.
Unfortunately for Brogan, a retiree, the bags were sold out.
"I've been all over town," Brogan said.
Beginning Monday, city residents will need to throw out their
trash in marked purple bags, which will cost $1 or $2 each,
depending on their size. The city has tried to make getting the bags
convenient for residents by recruiting local stores to stock them.
But as residents rushed to buy the bags, they discovered that
many of the stores listed on the city's website had either run out
of bags or never ...