Business officials said a proposed ban on plastic checkout bags in Annapolis was going too far in combating pollution.

“Behavior is the culprit here, not the plastic bag,” Melvin Thompson, spokesman for the Maryland Restaurant Association, said at a City Council public hearing Monday that was packed with residents, environmentalists and business representatives late into the evening.

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