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MADem

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2. This was cruising to easy passage in MA until an oppo group started griping with a false

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Sat Nov 1, 2014, 07:21 AM

Nov 2014

advertising ad that pretended that 90+ % of Bay Staters had access to curbside recycling. It's not true--the number is around forty percent, and the rest of that crap litters the roads or ends up in landfills.

They're doing it in ME and they're surviving. I favor adoption of the measure but we'll see--it's amazing what lobbyists will gin up and it's amazing what people will swallow.

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