It’s been nearly a year since Gov. Cuomo signed the trashiest law to hit this state in quite some time, one barring New York City, and only New York City, from charging a modest price for shopping bags, a day before a City Council-passed fee was set to go into effect.

Councilman Brad Lander led the local charge, a carefully crafted attempt to reduce, as many cities have, the hard-to-recycle thin plastic bags that litter streets, clog trains and get caught in trees.

New Yorkers would have been free to keep using them, but encouraged, via a five-cent-per-bag fee, to carry reusables. Sane and sound, and with reusable bag giveaways to take the edge off.

Then Albany put its big, smelly foot down to say no way. The affront to the city’s right to rule itself was cooked up by Brooklyn Sen. Simcha Felder, then signed by the governor, who, in typical gubernatorial fashion, claimed he was all for attacking the problem — but just wanted to do it right.