AA County Plastic Bag Ban in 2024

[Afrikeber]

The Walmart along Rt198 and BW Parkway was caught with its doors down aka no bags and not ready at all. The warehous was supposed to send them brown paper bags but of course they did not and their are out. They have tiny brown bags and or blue woven ones but then they are overpacked as well. All in all its a major PIA and someone needs to bring it to the attention of the county and mabe have them re think about that ban.

That’s assuming the County cares or wants to rethink their mistakes.

 

[N3uka]

Had to laugh yesterday at CVS in PG county. Was asked if I wanted a bag, charged 10 cents and then handed a disposable plastic bag. Don't think they quite read the regulations.

 

[GenoBluzGtr]

God forbid we use a thin little plastic bag to take home that package of (fill in the blank here...meat? toy? toilet paper? paper towels? cheese? you name it) that is wrapped in cellophane, sitting on plastic liner and housed in styrofoam.

Or heaven forbid I get a plastic straw at a drive through, when they give me plastic utensils, sealed inside a plastic bag to eat my meal from a styrofoam container.

 

[mpollan1]

Plastics although convenient suck. Most all of you find this as a bullsh!t inconvenience because you are actually conscientious stewards of the environment. What percent of the population do you think fit that mold? MaxVO2 images speak volumes. There are massive "patches" of plastics all over our oceans. Garbage Patch Yeah, during it's infancy here in MoCo, I too forgot my reusable bags so I either wheeled the cart to my car or took home one of the store's baskets which I returned on my next visit. I know have 2 or 3 reusable bags in each of my vehicles. No biggie...

 

[King Chicken]

Here ya go:

You wouldn't think MDS would attract statists.

My inquiry into reusable bags or reusing bags is my Communist jihad.

 

[King Chicken]

it's not the product itself but what people do with them

Plastic bags unfortunately are the some of the hardest to recycle.

I appreciate most of the MoCo incinerators virtues. Elrich prefers an algae farm or some b.s. from what I heard last through the grapevine.

 

[BurkeM]

Can someone explain to me why buying reusable grocery and produce bags is such a terrible thing?
Or, why single use plastic bags are so important?

There is no rational explanation. Political propaganda.

"We did a thing"

 

[aray]

Can someone explain to me why buying reusable grocery and produce bags is such a terrible thing?
Or, why single use plastic bags are so important?

Although as a matter of principle I don’t like the county telling me I can’t access convenient plastic bags (that as others have stated are put to many good uses at home including by me) I’d probably just shrug it off as inevitable nanny statisms, if that was all the recent law did. But my larger objection is that AACO forces merchants to charge a dime for every paper bag. Clearly the paper bags cost a tiny fraction of one cent wholesale, and also just as clearly they’d give them away for free for the convenience of their customers … as merchants do all over the rest of the country, in what’s known as Free America.

 

[Mr H]

Went shopping today for some fresh meats.

I'm so glad that we took our own bags, to carry out all the meat... packed in plastic bags...

 

[adit]

Spotted this contraband in the Sterling, VA Costco on Tuesday.

 

[welder516]

I am a loser, I thought there was more serious issues facing our counties and the state.

Bags seem to be so far down on the list when you have real problems fixed

 

[SWO Daddy]

Plastics although convenient suck. Most all of you find this as a bullsh!t inconvenience because you are actually conscientious stewards of the environment. What percent of the population do you think fit that mold? MaxVO2 images speak volumes. There are massive "patches" of plastics all over our oceans. Garbage Patch Yeah, during it's infancy here in MoCo, I too forgot my reusable bags so I either wheeled the cart to my car or took home one of the store's baskets which I returned on my next visit. I know have 2 or 3 reusable bags in each of my vehicles. No biggie...

Over 2 decades I spent riding ships in the Navy, never saw a "garbage patch" in open ocean. Red Sea and North Arabian Gulf were gross but that was isolated.

 

[Rich1911]

Over 2 decades I spent riding ships in the Navy, never saw a "garbage patch" in open ocean. Red Sea and North Arabian Gulf were gross but that was isolated.

Take a cruise out of ft. Smallwood park after the sewage plants dump their “leftovers”…

 

[Blaster229]

Over 2 decades I spent riding ships in the Navy, never saw a "garbage patch" in open ocean. Red Sea and North Arabian Gulf were gross but that was isolated.

How many decades ago was that?

 

[E.Shell]

Over 2 decades I spent riding ships in the Navy, never saw a "garbage patch" in open ocean. Red Sea and North Arabian Gulf were gross but that was isolated.

Take an offshore fishing trip to the Atlantic Gulf Stream, your captain will find one for you.

"Trash lines" and "weed lines" formed by interaction between current and wind provide shade for fish and are some of the best fishing spots. I've seen trash lines off Hattaras that go for miles (knots?), mostly plastics.

 

[rbird7282]

Why don't we ban ziploc bags?

What will the drug dealers do?


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[SWO Daddy]

Take an offshore fishing trip to the Atlantic Gulf Stream, your captain will find one for you.

"Trash lines" and "weed lines" formed by interaction between current and wind provide shade for fish and are some of the best fishing spots. I've seen trash lines off Hattaras that go for miles (knots?), mostly plastics.

Spent more time on the Atlantic than anywhere, thanks. Nope, nothing. This idea that there are giant floating islands of garbage is a myth as far as I can tell.

 

[lawrencewendall]

For anyone who knows who passed this ordinance. Please send them this. NJ has been a disaster since 2022.

Blue state’s bag ban meant to protect environment backfires at staggering rate: study

New Jersey's plastic consumption nearly tripled after the state banned retailers from using single-use bags in an effort to benefit the environment, a study found.

www.foxnews.com

 

[Mr H]

Just a month in, it's clear that Pissman has managed to set society back 40+ years.

People clambering about with armfuls and bagfuls of bags, just to do a little shopping.

I'm wondering how much 'fun' it will be once all the chintzy cloth bags start showing up in the trees and waters of the county.

 

[BurtonRW]

For anyone who knows who passed this ordinance. Please send them this. NJ has been a disaster since 2022.

Blue state’s bag ban meant to protect environment backfires at staggering rate: study

New Jersey's plastic consumption nearly tripled after the state banned retailers from using single-use bags in an effort to benefit the environment, a study found.

www.foxnews.com

Happy to, but if I’m not going to “register” with FoxNews, neither are the halfwits who voted for this.

Care to cut & paste the article for us?

-Rob