The Montgomery County Council is known for doing little beyond raising taxes and the cost of doing business, and banning stuff. Councilmembers were able to do all three in their highest-profile ban of the 2025 legislative session, that of plastic bags. The ban takes effect on January 1, 2026, and impacted businesses across the county are now trying to prepare their customers to buy paper bags (remember how paper bags were causing deforestation, so we were told to use plastic?!) or reusable bags, or - ew! - reuse dirty reusable bags teeming with e coli, salmonella, and God knows what else. Ironically, Safeway, whose customer alert signage is pictured here, got its start as the Sanitary Grocery Company.
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Never met a ban they didn't like. Can't wait to be in SC where the plastic bags are free and thick unlike the crappy thin ones we have here. Also, Chick Fil A ice tea tastes much better in a nice, Styrofoam cup with a real, plastic straw and stays cool for hours. Ah!
"The Montgomery County Council is known for doing little beyond raising taxes and the cost of doing business, and banning stuff."
Weird use of passive voice to repost your own talking points.
Note: Reusable bags are washable ICYDK.
The MCC Strikes Again!
This is a fail on so many levels but controlling behavior is what this council loves.
"Looms" if we only had replacement type bags containing fabric which are loomed... Oh wait! We DO! Good riddance plastic!!!!!
Be proud fellow 'DC area' citizens!! The plastic bag debacle has come full circle right back to us! Remember the 5 cent bag "tax" began because our neighbors around the Anacostia litter so much the bags were clogging it up! We first got the opportunity to be charged 5 cents to incentive those neighbors to cleanup their act, which only led to more issues. Whenever fix the bad habits that bring on our *unnecessary* sacrifices, do we?
The Gallant Guardians of the Galaxy!
What they don't want to ban, they want to make mandatory.
Just when you thought the county couldn't get any more insane - hold my beer!
“ Chick Fil A ice tea tastes much better in a nice, Styrofoam cup with a real, plastic straw and stays cool for hours.”
Are you for real?
Just buy the 1000 bag box from Costco in VA. It's cheap and you can give them to neighbors until the MC cartel decides to fine anyone using them. Black market plastic bags, free!
7:57 - is that a real question from a serious person? The vast majority of the entire country still serves fast food beverages in styrofoam containers and offers real plastic straws and no one has an issue. Montgomery County is among the very few wacko places that socially engineer your life. And you're okay with that? I'm not.
Styrofoam containers... when the food actually stayed hot! Plastic straws... still intact when you finish the drink, and don't melt into it to ruin the taste. We're being governed by very stupid people.
7:47: I don't think "passive voice" means what you think it does.
1:04 - Robert, absolutely correct. I enjoy a Chick Fil-A ice tea in Atlanta, the home base of that company, in good ole styrofoam. The drinks stay cold for hours and the ice doesn't melt for at least as long. It's bizarre that this is a red state/blue state issue but that's what it is. Nothing wrong with this but they ban it anyway. Lastly, you cannot believe how thick and strong the bags are in SC that you get at Walmart and Target. I didn't even know bags could be that way. There's are. Love it.
Needless to say that they cannot punch their way out of a paper bag!
Do the anti-bag people on here realize that this ban is essentially a complete and total one? You won't be able to get a bag for almost anything whether you pay the stupid bag tax or not. Thanks O'Malley! I bet even the greenest of the green energy crowd is not going to be happy when your Chinese carryout comes to you in a brown paper bag instead of the plastic that fits everything nicely with handle and won't topple over in the car. This is really motivation to get the hell out of here for many I'll say that.
JAC - why does your life depend on drinking sugar water from a plastic container ordered from a drive-thru fast-food “restaurant”? It’s really sad that you consider that a benchmark for your quality of life. Three ingredients - water, tea, sugar - why can’t you figure out how to make that yourself?
JAC - It’s odd that you’ve never seen paper bags with carrying straps. And even odder that you’ve never noticed that a crisply folded paper bag sits up on its own much more easily than a plastic bag.
JAC- Will you be finally making the move to SC, where you’ll be happier about things?
4:47 - You're missing the point. Sorry, but you sound just like the socialist leaders of MoCo. The individual does not know what's best for him so, we, the county social engineers, will show you by force. And can you tell our county exec to knock off his sugary drinks? He's 30 pounds overweight at least. I would say this lately, mind yourself.
8:54 - Your comment would be called a disagreement. Nothing in my post indicates an unawareness that paper bags have handles. No comment about the heart of the issue which is a social engineering overreach by Montgomery County council.
This has to be the Montgomery County Council's Seminal Accomplishment!
This and the leaf blower ban
11:09 - It's a really sad commentary that people have moved and are contemplating a move to greener pastures. I'm a multi-generational native. But yes, in a few years, I'll be gone.
4:00 - That's do perfectly stated.
4:00 - Sorry. Typo. That's so perfectly stated. None better.
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