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Fascinatingly, single use plastic bags are so impossibly thin that you'd have to reuse a reusable bag more times than they're likely to last. I have not seen any data, but I'm willing to bet that our consumption of plastic has increased, with any reduction in single use plastic bags more than offset by an increase in "reusable" bags. If instead of normalising the use of reusable bags, we normalised soft plastics (LDP…
This is a myopic view. My state recently started charging for bags. Guess what? People carry groceries in their hands when possible. Many bring their own bag plastic reusable bags. It’s not just the energy required to create them. It’s that they’re virtually indestructible. They litter. They fly away. They break and leak plastic everywhere in the environment leading to microplastic found in blood of wildlife. And thi…
Re: Food Packaging
#131It is myopic to focus on the highly visible component of the greater problem (loose plastic bags in the environment) rather than a holistic view (total environmental cost of shopping conveyance).