Gallup eyeing banning, taxing plastic shopping bags
Sacker Terrence Lutsie places a customer's groceries into plastic sacks at T&R Market Wednesday. The city may soon tax or even ban plastic grocery sacks. © 2011 Gallup Independent / Cable Hoover

By Bernie Dotson
Staff writer

GALLUP — So you’re environmentally conscious and a business owner, but you don’t want government telling you what to do. But you find out that such a scenario could play out, if an ordinance discussed this week by the Gallup City Council picks up steam.

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