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To reiterate (and to answer @Anacostia Rower), today's vote is only to allow the Prince George's County Council to pursue a bag fee. The County doesn't have this kind of fiscal authority from the state the way Montgomery County does. (Only Montgomery and Baltimore Counties and Baltimore City have that authority. Constitutional charter issue.)

Councilmember Mary Lehman and County Executive Rushern Baker are advocating for the fee at the county level. Their intent is for the revenues to go to environmental protection/watershed restoration just as in Montgomery County and in DC. But those details are too in the weeds for what the Assembly needed to approve, so it hasn't yet been codified (nor have many other details).

Again, the intent of the bill isn't to raise money at all--it's to disincentivize the use of disposable bags.

And as far as all the other trash, bags are just the first step. It's not like I don't see the bottles, chip bags, Styrofoam, and everything else out there too.

by Julie Lawson on Mar 2, 2012 1:07 pm • link • report

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