Why is Virginia so far behind Maryland in environmentally friendly business policy?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I live in Maryland and I'm constantly hearing people whine about how Montgomery County is so anti-business with its regulations and so on. But Virginia's environmental standards, or lack thereof, are deplorable. I notice this when I visit friends in Virginia or spend any extended amount of time there.

Maryland, especially Montgomery County, is miles ahead of Virginia. We're banning plastic straws and styrofoam and tax plastic bags. Most stores and cafes discourage single use plastic utensils and encourage bringing your own bag.

What do I see in "business friendly" Virginia? Plastic bags galore. People just give me plastic bags automatically even when I visibly have my own bag. Go to a fast casual or takeout place and they have styrofoam, non recyclable plastics, and automatically give you a plastic bag with single use utensils and a young tree's worth of paper napkins. Not to mention nobody has the new compostable straws and they think I'm weird for having my own reusable straw. I can't even buy bulk products with my own mason jars.

Why is "business friendly" Virginia so wasteful?

Just heard an NPR podcast saying that plastic bags are in fact better than the alternatives, so banning them is actually stupid.

Go Virginia!

Link please? Usually when people talk about that they’re talking about energy consumption. Plastic bags get into rivers and oceans and harm sea life.

https://qz.com/1585027/when-it-comes-to-climate-change-cotton-totes-might-be-worse-than-plastic/

Anyways, disposal of trash is not a big deal, bury it and it becomes inert and we have oil again in a millennium.

Recycling has been a sham anyways, shipped to China for recycling <wink>.

Yes, plastic bags may get into sea, but you cotton bag is turning that sea into a jacuzzi.

No easy answers sadly.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are there recycling bins in Wheaton Plaza?

Or White Flint Mall. Maybe that’s why Amazon laughed at Maryland after being dragged through that ghost town.

Maryland already lost most of the military hospitals to Virginia, Johns Hopkins is incrementally leaving Baltimore, and NIH is moving to Virginia. With those employment centers gone, Marylanders can make biodegradable straws to sell on Etsy.

NIH is moving??? That’s an enormous campus!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are there recycling bins in Wheaton Plaza?

Or White Flint Mall. Maybe that’s why Amazon laughed at Maryland after being dragged through that ghost town.

Maryland already lost most of the military hospitals to Virginia, Johns Hopkins is incrementally leaving Baltimore, and NIH is moving to Virginia. With those employment centers gone, Marylanders can make biodegradable straws to sell on Etsy.

NIH is moving??? That’s an enormous campus!

[Anonymous]

Businesses have every right to dump radioactive waste and pesticides in rivers if it enhances their profits! Can't believe you people are so anti-business.

[Anonymous]

And people, yes Wheaton and other areas in Maryland have recycling bins. There are even some of us Americans who live there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are there recycling bins in Wheaton Plaza?

Or White Flint Mall. Maybe that’s why Amazon laughed at Maryland after being dragged through that ghost town.

Maryland already lost most of the military hospitals to Virginia, Johns Hopkins is incrementally leaving Baltimore, and NIH is moving to Virginia. With those employment centers gone, Marylanders can make biodegradable straws to sell on Etsy.

Amazing how people love to make things up in their head and think that saying it makes it true.

Dunno. Walter Reed moved a lot of its departments to the hospital at Fort Belvoir. Hopkins just bought a building in DC and is affiliating with Sibley.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are there recycling bins in Wheaton Plaza?

Or White Flint Mall. Maybe that’s why Amazon laughed at Maryland after being dragged through that ghost town.

Maryland already lost most of the military hospitals to Virginia, Johns Hopkins is incrementally leaving Baltimore, and NIH is moving to Virginia. With those employment centers gone, Marylanders can make biodegradable straws to sell on Etsy.

Amazing how people love to make things up in their head and think that saying it makes it true.

Dunno. Walter Reed moved a lot of its departments to the hospital at Fort Belvoir. Hopkins just bought a building in DC and is affiliating with Sibley.

Oh goodness. Doesn't mean they're moving.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are there recycling bins in Wheaton Plaza?

Or White Flint Mall. Maybe that’s why Amazon laughed at Maryland after being dragged through that ghost town.

Maryland already lost most of the military hospitals to Virginia, Johns Hopkins is incrementally leaving Baltimore, and NIH is moving to Virginia. With those employment centers gone, Marylanders can make biodegradable straws to sell on Etsy.

Amazing how people love to make things up in their head and think that saying it makes it true.

Dunno. Walter Reed moved a lot of its departments to the hospital at Fort Belvoir. Hopkins just bought a building in DC and is affiliating with Sibley.

You do know that Walter Reed was previously in DC, right ? When it closed, its main departments moved to what used to be called Bethesda Naval hospital and some departments moved to elsewhere.
Hopkins is expanding and it brought Sibley long time ago.

[Anonymous]

Judging by the amount of MD plates clogging our local roads, seems like the policies are driving people out of your state.

[Anonymous]

Va is not as progressive as Md plain and simple. However here in Ffx City, I do see public recycling bins and they do encourage reusable grocery bags for example. Not entirely true that Va neglects this. They also put in many of our sewer that they drain into the Bay, not to dump for example.

[Anonymous]

Because that stuff doesn’t matter. Virginia wants businesses to come to VA and pay taxes.

[Anonymous]

One reason: Dick Saslaw. The R's in Richmond are obviously anti-environment; but it doesn't help that the head of the D's is basicaly not at all pro-environment.

I'm not even talking about the whole "he's owned by Dominion" argument -- I don't believe that politicians automatically vote based on who gives them money. I'm just looking at the record of bills he's introduced.

[Anonymous]

Why is Maryland so far behind Virginia in business-friendly economic policy?

I mean, MD residents clog VA roads constantly due to the lack of jobs in MD, and that can’t be great for the environment.