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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface
Understood.
But the "reusable bags" are just plastic bags, but worse. It's another item on the list of shallow environmental measures that don't actually help, but sound good to voters.
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Well reusable bags are worse if you don't reuse them. But in theory you would buy one bag and it would be used hundreds or thousands of times, which is obviously way better than the equivalent in single-use plastic bags.
In practice, however, it hasn't worked that way. Retailers used to hand them out like candy for cheap or free, every conference/event/promotion would add another to the pile, etc. leading to people sitting on loads of ironically unused reusable bags. You can't give them away because everyone else has their own stash already.
Another example is takeout containers. Single use ones are to be banned (federally), but if you use a thicker plastic that can be used multiple times, it isn't technically single-use anymore, even though most people will still only use it once. More plastic. Hopefully the compostable options offset that.