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.
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!
ReplyDeleteWhat they don't want to ban, they want to make mandatory.
Delete"The Montgomery County Council is known for doing little beyond raising taxes and the cost of doing business, and banning stuff."
ReplyDeleteWeird use of passive voice to repost your own talking points.
Note: Reusable bags are washable ICYDK.
ReplyDeleteThe MCC Strikes Again!
ReplyDeleteThis is a fail on so many levels but controlling behavior is what this council loves.
ReplyDeleteThe Gallant Guardians of the Galaxy!
Delete"Looms" if we only had replacement type bags containing fabric which are loomed... Oh wait! We DO! Good riddance plastic!!!!!
ReplyDeleteBe 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?
ReplyDeleteJust when you thought the county couldn't get any more insane - hold my beer!
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