The City of Austin might ban disposable plastic and paper bags at checkout counters three years earlier than originally planned.

A revised draft of the ban, released Friday, moves up the date the ban would take effect to January 2013 from January 2016 .

The new draft would require retailers to charge customers 10 cents per disposable bag — paper or plastic — from June to late December, as a precursor to the outright ban. Under the old draft, retailers would have had to charge 25 cents per disposable bag from January 2013 to late 2015 .

A city commission will discuss the revised draft Wednesday. Austin Resource Recovery, the city department that wrote both ban drafts and oversees trash and recycling, also plans to hold a public meeting Jan. 23 to gather feedback.

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