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.
Gonna be "fun" watching those paper bags rip apart and spew their contents onto the dirty ground !!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI live in PG County which is next to Montgomery County in Maryland. We have not used plastic bags for a while and have not encountered salmonella, e coli etc. If concerned I suggest using the provided bags for your meats and veggies 😉
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