AA County Plastic Bag Ban in 2024

[ironpony]

I just got back from two stores and prices have jumped in the last week! wtf
No plastic baskets anywhere.

 

[Vdogg]

I pulled this off a site today.

"There are even studies that suggest that banning plastic bags simply makes people purchase smaller heavy-duty bags which can be made of several times more plastic than thin grocery bags. An average person would have to use a reusable plastic bag 131 times to offset the use of a single-use plastic bag"

 

[Mr H]

It's all virtue-signaling, combined with social control megalomania.

These CoExecs think they are just so much smarter...

Funny thing... the Amish Market in (just outside the city limit) Analpolis doesn't seem to care about the law. They give us more bags than we know what to do with!

 

[BurkeM]

The Joint Base Andrews Base Exchange, Commissary and Package Store in PG county ain't playing the PG County Executive's game. Glad for that.

Not sure about other bases (e.g. Bollings) but would guess the same.

Federal facilities ignore County and State nonsense. No sales tax, etc.

Bolling is DC.

 

[Growler215]

Federal facilities ignore County and State nonsense. No sales tax, etc.

Bolling is DC.

Yah, I forgot where the state line is.

But I guess Ft Mead in AA County probably doesn't participate in the plastic bag ban either.

 

[FN509Fan]

I pulled this off a site today.

"There are even studies that suggest that banning plastic bags simply makes people purchase smaller heavy-duty bags which can be made of several times more plastic than thin grocery bags. An average person would have to use a reusable plastic bag 131 times to offset the use of a single-use plastic bag"

the heavier bags are now been used for curb side pick-up so people that use that regularly are ending up with piles of reusable bags. I use cloth bags that will decompose if disposed of properly. Which I plan to do, after I turn them into gun cleaning patches.

 

[BurkeM]

But I guess Ft Mead in AA County probably doesn't participate in the plastic bag ban either.

Correct- I still get the AAFES or BX classic bags at Andrews, Detrick, Aberdeen, Annapolis and FGGM.