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I don't understand. You can use any reusable bag. Even a cotton or nylon one you can toss in the wash. Do you also have a sanitary issue with reusable plates a

• mmt 8y ago
  Actually, yes, I absolutely would also have a sanitary issue with eating salad off of panties that had been used to hold raw meat that had merely been tossed in the wash. (Othersie, panties or other clothing are a strawman). There was even an article about how many microbes remain in "clean" laundry on the HN front page recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17045777 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17045777 As for my plates, those go in the dishwasher, which uses both a chlorinated detergent and boosts the water temperature to kill bacteria. I'd surmise that such treatment of nylon or even cotton would reduce the lifespan of those bags. What's worse, I'd have to buy a significant number of them to make sure I had enough on hand for shopping and to run a full machine load when sanitizing them. Good thing that's just not going to happen.