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apfelwoiSchoppen ,
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Paper and canvas bags already do this. What an engineering marvel.

_pete_ ,

Nice! With the best will in the world I always forget my standard shopping bags and I feel that the “bags for life” just replace one thin and crap lump of plastic for an overly engineered one.

ABCDE ,

How are they over-engineered? They last much longer. Canvas ones forever, pretty much.

_pete_ ,

The plastic ones (here in the UK at least) also split and fall apart, they’re better than the “standard” ones but they don’t usually last that much longer.

Also I have a million of them because I always forget to bring them.

massive_bereavement ,

I have both opinions: certain canvas bags will last you a lifetime and even you can fix them if necessary.
Most stores sell you "bags for life" that aren't either recyclable (truly) nor meant to last a year of daily usage, probably because they are cheaping out on the materials and production.

So we still end with a pile of garbage.

However, I am against single-use anything and would say that promoting truly lasting bags should be a priority over trying to figure out a solution for a single facet of a large issue.

TrashWizard ,

I feel like the thicker ‘bags for life’ are a bit of a false economy. I could be remembering wrong but with those, you need to use them something like either 12 or 20 times for them to work out as being less harmful than the old disposable plastic bags.

I try to avoid using them where possible but where I can, but when I have, I can’t say I’ve been able to use them more than 5 or 6 times on average.

_pete_ ,

We had some from Lidl that broke on the way out of the shop! I wouldn’t trust most of them for 3 trips, let alone a lifetime of them.

TrashWizard ,

Agreed. Of the supermarkets I go to, lidl make the weakest ones.

Bag for week would probably be more accurate but doesn’t quite have the same ring to it 😂

ABCDE ,

I remember using them a lot (I’m from the UK) and they were much stronger, could hold more, and would last ages if you didn’t strain them.

webghost0101 ,

Buy some actual good bags and store them in your car.

_pete_ ,

I don’t drive every time I go to the shops, plus I also have to remember to put them back once I get my shopping inside.

Deceptichum ,
@Deceptichum@quokk.au avatar

Just buy a new one every time and tell yourself next time you’ll put some in the car.

_pete_ ,

Ngl, this is basically what we do :(

grue ,

Decomposes in 180 days under what circumstances? 'cause if it requires high-temperature municipal compost, the vast majority of bags produced aren’t gonna decompose.

Draghetta ,

I’m sorry for the naivety, maybe there is something cool I’m not catching.

Haven’t we had biodegradable, compostable “plastic” shopping bags for like 20 years now? What’s the news here?

vudu ,

An Indian entrepreneur is using sugar, cellulose, and corn fibers to make a plastic-like carrier bag for small Indian businesses.

His company Bio Reform has already replaced 6 million plastic bags in the checkout counters of stores all over India.

Based in Hyderabad, Mohammed Azhar Mohiuddin first got the idea during the general mayhem that arose during the pandemic. Mohiuddin was looking at global environmental issues with the hope of finding one his entrepreneurial spirit had the capacity to tackle.

ABCDE ,

We have some in Cambodia made from cassava.

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