Some poorly made reusable shopping bags rip or otherwise break before they get used enough times to break even with the single use disposable plastic shopping bags they are supposed to replace. Especially the cheap ones bring given out as freebies.
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qevlarr@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
There’s so much plastic lining that paper otherwise everything would get too soggy anyway. Yay for glass and metal. Reusable beats disposable, no matter what it’s made of
wunami@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 15 minutes ago
That’s bullshit from the oil companies. They did a “study” that concluded that but if you read the methodology, they made the assumption that the reusable bag would be unusable after 20 uses.
Meanwhile I’ve been going to the grocery store every week for quite a few years using the same bags without much issue. I’ve had one strap on a bag break after ~10 years of use, so there’s that I guess. Still haven’t thrown it out, keep meaning to repair it which I never get around to doing.
Anyway, if you read between the lines of the study conducted by the oil companies, if you reuse the bag more than 20 times (half a year of going to the grocery store every week) you are reducing plastic waste.
diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 1 hour ago
Glass is glass and glass breaks. Win win for overpopulation, though.
spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 35 minutes ago
A German talking about overpopulation. I don’t like where this is going…
diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 28 minutes ago
Why would you assume I am German?
BlackVenom@lemmy.world 16 minutes ago
We saw your snap feed in Poland…
agent_nycto@lemmy.world 24 minutes ago
Unlike plastic which never breaks ever
diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 20 minutes ago
Sheet thin bendable plastic like that is difficult to break without tools. Especially while you are in progress of drinking from it. I was referring to glass shard going into people if it wasn’t clear. There’s already microplastics in people (for various reasons, not just straws), not much to loose there.
peetabix@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
Theres a plastic lining in aluminium cans too. So glass a the way.