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The plastic bag ban in Colorado has been awful. I would much rather go back to before.
Why? I haven't used a disposable plastic bag in a decade, and don't miss them in the least. What issue do you have with it?
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> How many times have you used your last one? Every shopping trip for 4 years now. It tore, but my partner was able to patch it since it's made of pretty good quality fabric.
Have you smelled them? Do you wash them?
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> Because that's utterly ridiculous and highly inconvenient for nearly everyone that isn't proselytizing about reusable sacks No Here in Aotearoa they are completely normal > Reusable bags are nearly universally unsanitary...place them on the same conveyor belt where you put your vegetables. Golly. Given the habits of growers you really should wash your vegetables before you use them. Pesticides
Pesticides are water soluble. Cat feces is not.
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> Because that's utterly ridiculous and highly inconvenient for nearly everyone that isn't proselytizing about reusable sacks No Here in Aotearoa they are completely normal > Reusable bags are nearly universally unsanitary...place them on the same conveyor belt where you put your vegetables. Golly. Given the habits of growers you really should wash your vegetables before you use them. Pesticides
Not just growers, I don't think grocery store employees are washing their hands religiously when they're putting this stuff out.
I was skeptical of whether it was representative of 85% of the global population, or just the first-world. I've often thought (and heard that) environmental concerns are secondary to economic, and that people in less prosperous countries don't care as much about environmental concerns as people in first-world countries who are secure in most areas of their lives. Surprisingly, this data says the opposite! Sample size…
Poorer parts of the world have (typically) much worse problems with litter. Poorer nations typically have no/few refuse collection services, and people often just pile up and burn their own refuse or dump it in rivers to take it away. That means poorer people see directly the litter rather than an 'out of sight, out of mind' approach.
Here's a well researched report that dives into a lot of the issues of why these plastics are used. It is a combination of economic and societal factors.
https://www.no-burn.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Sachet-Ec...
And here's a article that names and shames which companies produce most of the single use plastic waste found in the Philippines.
https://www.rappler.com/environment/findings-philippines-pla...
https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2020/09/turning-tap-plastic-...
Crap. Most of the substitutes have a bigger ecological footprint, even if you don't care at all about cost and comfort. Those reusable shopping bags need to be actually reused , several dozen if not hundreds of times, to be ecological. How many times have you used your last one?
This argument is so absurd. I have reused my reusable bags more times than I can possibly count. It's really not hard or unrealistic. How does everyone else seem to have such a hard time with this?
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Why? I haven't used a disposable plastic bag in a decade, and don't miss them in the least. What issue do you have with it?
Those thin supermarket plastic bags were fantastic for disposing of cat waste and litter. You put the waste in the bag, tied it off, and threw it in the outside trash bin. Now, we buy quart food storage bags for disposing of cat waste.