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Councilor urges action on miniature alcohol-bottle litter near schools
Summary
Everett City Councilor Katie Rogers told the School Committee she and volunteers are collecting thousands of discarded miniature alcohol bottles (“nips”) along students’ routes to school and urged committee members to be vocal with the licensing board, which controls sales in the city.
Everett City Councilor Katie Rogers addressed the School Committee during public comment on April 29 to urge action on widespread litter of miniature alcohol bottles—often called “nips”—near schools and parks.
Rogers described leading a volunteer group, Clean Up Everett, that collects trash at parks and school routes and said miniature bottles are one of the most prevalent items they find. She showed the committee a bag of collected bottles from Glendale Park and said she has mapped collection points using schools as center points.
Rogers said the licensing board, which she described as a three-member body, is responsible for regulating sales of the small bottles and that efforts to ban sale of nips in Everett “keeps getting pushed back.” She urged School Committee members to be vocal with city decisionmakers and to encourage public involvement in the licensing process.
In her remarks Rogers said the litter is a public-safety and pollution issue that affects students’ daily routes and asked committee members to participate in broader community pressure on the licensing board and other officials.
No committee action was taken at the April 29 meeting on the matter; Rogers said she brought a petition and that public participation will be vital to change the licensing board’s decisions.
