Posted on 03/06/2021 2:03:05 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Maryland lawmakers advanced a bill Monday that would prohibit stores from providing plastic bags to customers starting July 2022.
An iteration of this legislation passed the House and was voted out of the Senate Finance Committee last year, but it did not reach the Senate floor due to the abbreviated legislative session.
With an amendment from Del. Brian Crosby (D-St. Mary’s) that would allow orchard farmers to provide plastic bags to customers for its fruits and vegetables, the Plastic Bag Reduction Act, sponsored by Del. Brooke Lierman (D-Baltimore City) and Sen. Malcom Augustine (D-Prince George’s), moved out of the House Economic Matters committee 16-7 on Monday.
Some Republican lawmakers worried about a paper bag shortage and argued that the bill would increase costs for small businesses and transfer extra costs of paper bags onto customers. Although large retail stores could swallow the cost, smaller ones would have a more difficult time, they said.
“It puts the small guys, and the small business women, at yet another disadvantage to the Walmarts of the world,” Del. Mark Fisher (R-Calvert) told the House Economic Matters committee Monday. “For the small guys, it’s a big deal.”
But Del. Kathleen M. Dumais (D-Montgomery) contended that customers are already paying for bags now. Grocers would simply have to buy paper bags instead of plastic bags and that will similarly get incorporated into their cost of doing business, she said.
Stores have already been adapting to this change, as Montgomery County, Howard County, Baltimore City, Takoma Park, Chestertown and Westminster have all passed legislation that either prohibits the sale of plastic bags or requires stores to charge a fee for them.
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Let’s SEEEEEEE:
Cannot cut down trees for paper——
Cannot use fossil fuels for plastic bags.....
Fabric bags are not clean enough long enough, and come apart when washed......
Someone will get backlash from this.............
Meanwhile, a kid in high school in Baltimore has a .013 grade average AND HE is in the top half of his class !!!!!!!!!
All THAT packaging will completely disappear when FOSSIL products are no longer allowed.
Those paper bags are the ONLY thing to use when you are baking cookies.
You take cookies out of oven, off cookie sheet, and put on paper...and the excess butter soaks into the paper & the cookies get crunchy...Otherwise, you have soggy cookies.
Most superdupermarkets around here will give you paper bags if you ask for them, but today’s paper bags are so flimsy they have to put the paper bag in a plastic bag so it doesn’t rip and dump your purchases.
We told these EnviroNAZIs in the ‘80s that plastic is not good for ecology (there was no “environment” yet), but they were upset about running out of trees.
30 years later they decide no one should have plastic bags. At least we get some paper back but they really want us to drag around nasty germ-ridden “reusable” bags.
This is racist, of course, since blacks use public transportation to shop, and paper bags are unsuitable for such conveyances.
Standard plastic bags (they’re called “tee-shirt” bags) like they used to use in grocery stores are readily available through the Internet and you can buy a box of a thousand of them for about 15 bucks.
First it was paper bags. Now it is plastic. Like we didn’t see that coming. Yeah, I really want my bag boy (sexist!) to handle the treehugger’s nasty filthy germy never washed tote right before bagging my purchases.
I reuse plastic bags for cat poo litter and for trash containers.
The meat I purchased today was originally packaged in plastic, then the grocery person put it into another plastic bag because meat juice gets all over and finally put it into a regular plastic grocery bag. Then I used plastic gloves to bring it inside. Finally, after portioning it for the freezer, it went into freezer baggies. Do I care? No.
Tomatoes went into a plastic bag to keep them from rolling around.
BTW, reuse the produce bags to cover your seedlings. It’s the same material they sell for $$$ at garden centers.
Now we’re returning to this silliness.
“Save the bags! No, don’t save the bags!”
Yet another blow to small businesses. So sick of such idiotic policies.
Well, we used paper bags back in the ‘50s and ‘60s, didn’t we? We didn’t use plastic bags until the ‘70s? I was not born until 1983 so someone will have to tell me here.
They were being used as late as the 1980s.
Actually he's near the top of the bottom half of his class.
I like to mess with the baggers at the grocery by answering “yes” to the paper or plastic question.
Nothing worse than a soggy Cookie, except the Xiden / Commiela Regime.
I reuse those bags for many things. Waste can liners in each bathroom. Boot liners for rubber overshoes, trash collectors in vehicles, general carry all’s for various odds and ends when I need to transport stuff and segregating items for bug out bags They are definitely not “one use” for me.
bttt
Also used for scooping out Kitty’s toilet.
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