Ah, if that's the case I guess I didn't make my point clearly. Absolutely, it's fine and I personally feel, a great idea to use reusable bags (and water bottle

Ah, if that's the case I guess I didn't make my point clearly. Absolutely, it's fine and I personally feel, a great idea to use reusable bags (and water bottles). The difficulty comes if people apply social pressure and say "why are you still using non-reusable bags that you are lazy and apathetic, and it's a sign of societies mental decline" (those are rephrased statements used elsewhere in this discussion). Because there can be good reasons for using a non-reusable bags (or water bottles) in certain situations, and there are likely value judgments you make that have equal (or greater) environmental impact which have similar utility.