While health and retirement benefits were the top reasons more than 30,000 Stop & Shop workers across Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island went on an 11-day strike this month, another concern lingered in the background for picketing employees.
Jeff Wieser remembers how, as a newly elected member of the Westport Representative Town Meeting nearly a dozen years ago, he carried his cellphone on his daily runs so he could document the plastic bag litter strewn around his coastal town.