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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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? [/quote]

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

Go Virginia![/quote]

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.[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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