The Giant grocery store at 7142 Arlington Road at Bethesda Row is ahead of the game, stocking self-checkout stations with paper bags days ahead of the Montgomery County Council plastic bag ban, which takes effect on January 1, 2026. You will also have to pay a 10-cent tax on each paper bag, half of which is paid to the business, and the other half goes into the County Water Quality Protection Fund. The bags at Giant are the retro kind, missing the convenient handles found on paper bags at Trader Joe's and Harris Teeter. You can thank the obscenely overpaid County Council, while struggling with your obscenely overpriced groceries. Heckuva job, Brownie!
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Those crummy plastic bags the Council mandated we all embrace weren't an improvement on the fusty old low-tech paper bags they supplanted? Whodathunkit?
I bought 1000 plastic grocery bags on Amazon for about $23 and stuck the box of them in my trunk. I will bring them in with me to the stores and lay them on the belt. Hopefully the clerks will stock them the same way they stock paper bags and not forget how to pack plastic bags!
"fusty"? Thanks grandpa.
I never pay for bags. Total and compete peaceful protest. Sorry. And I'm not alone in doing so. It's totally and completely punitive and as it is classified as a tax, it'll never be taken away. Whatever that revenue is earmarked for, it never actually makes it there. Scam tax. Thanks O'Malley! I look forward to my free paper bags at least at the Giant. All other places will be a pain in the butt.
Another peeve of mine is the county would not take my recycle paper put out in a paper bag like this. But if I put the bag in the heavy hard to roll plastic pin -that they will pick up!
So why not bring your own reusable bags instead of blatantly stealing Giant paper bags? You think these bags grow on trees? No, wait, they do, but somebody has to pay to manufacture, shop and stock these. Grow up JAC, and act like a responsible citizen.
Aren't they going to charge 10cents per paper bag?
I used to work in the paper making biz, making paper, particularly thicker and heavier kraft paper is achemical, energy using, odoriferous and nasty business. I've read that a very small amount of corn starch in the plastic bags allows them to breakdown. I hope we're not jumping back out of the fire into the original pan.
10:07 - Reusable bags are $2 each. Fools and their money are soon parted.
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