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Committee advances bag fee and single‑use plastic ban with multiple clarifying amendments
Summary
The Transportation and Environment Committee advanced Bill 24‑24 to ban single‑use plastic carryout bags and raise the paper bag charge to $0.10, adopting several clarifying amendments and asking DEP for further implementation and outreach plans.
The Transportation and Environment Committee advanced Bill 24‑24, a proposal to prohibit single‑use plastic carryout bags in Montgomery County and to increase the paper bag fee to $0.10, adopting a set of clarifying amendments and directing further work before full council.
Committee members and Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) staff discussed the bill’s main elements. As introduced, the measure would ban single‑use plastic carryout bags and impose a 10‑cent fee on paper carryout bags, with the fee split so that retailers receive 5 cents and 5 cents are allocated to the county’s Water Quality Protection Fund. The bill exempts customers who use federal food assistance benefits (SNAP and WIC);…
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