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if you ever had your milk go splat on the pavement after it went right through your plastic bag, then yeah, its not enough.
by autokad 9y ago
if you ever had your milk go splat on the pavement after it went right through your plastic bag, then yeah, its not enough.
- oneplane 9y agoThere are amazing fabrics today that can solve this; one called cotton and another called nylon.
- wnissen 9y agoPlastic bags hold about 20-30 pounds, how much milk are we talking?
- coldtea 9y agoPlastic bags can easily tear with just a small box being sideways and its corners cutting into the bag...
- BinaryIdiot 9y agoDepends on the type of plastic bag. If we're talking Walmart grade plastic bags then those are not going to hold 20 pounds. You'd be lucky to hold 10 pounds with those terrible bags. Safeway bags, thought? Those are crazy thick and strong and could easily handle 30 pounds.
- jwilk 9y agoFor metrics units users, that's 9-14 kg.
- rhplus 9y agoMany US supermarkets use very thin plastic bags. I'm guessing 0.5 mil []. They're noticeably thinner than the type you (used) to get from UK supermarkets. This site suggests that "reusable" type would be > 2.25 mil. https://1bagatatime.com/learn/what-is-a-mill/ https://1bagatatime.com/learn/what-is-a-mill/
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- ekianjo 9y agoWhy not bring your own (non-plastic) bag though?
- sdfasdasfsf 9y ago... we forget. Glad to know you're helping bring down the average though
- monk_e_boy 9y agoDo they sell cloth bags in the shops? If shops stopped selling plastic bags people would figure out a solution.
- sdfasdasfsf 9y agoAnd if social media companies were legislated out of business people would figure out solutions to staying in touch and we'd avoid all the zombies we're creating [1]. But then we cease to be a liberal (as in live and let live) society. [1] I for one despise being in the company of someone on their phone while we're talking in the same way that others can't seem to forget the plastic tidal pool in the oceans. I also walk and ride so the addictiveness of social media is literally a mortal danger to me in a way plastic bits aren't
- ekianjo 9y ago> ... we forget. My technique is to always have such bags in my bags so that I never go anywhere without having them on me. Redundancy :)