A bill proposed earlier this year as a path to reducing plastic pollution in New Hampshire has been put on a different course with a replace-all amendment regarding mining and prospecting.
House Bill 1141 was sponsored by Democratic Rep. Tony Caplan of Henniker and originally sought to forbid the use of plastic bottles in any future New Hampshire water bottling operations. New Hampshire has a waste problem, Caplan said in December, and he intended the bill to help stem the flow.
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