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I recently heard that the reusable grocery bags are actually more wasteful than the single use ones because you have to use them ~500 times to break even and m
by habosa 8y ago
I recently heard that the reusable grocery bags are actually more wasteful than the single use ones because you have to use them ~500 times to break even and most people get far less use than that.
I wonder how many times you have to use your Loop metal ice cream container for this to work?
- jvagner 8y ago"Break even"? Who cares about the cost of reusable grocery bags.. really. We have 4 of them in our cupboard. Bought from Whole Foods. We use it everywhere we go. $40, maybe? Years ago..? That's not a real burden (to me), especially against environmental degradation, pollution, waste, etc. There's the suggestion that paper cups are more environmentally responsible than ceramic mugs, because of the carbon cost of making ceramics. You have to use hundreds of paper cups to achieve the same environmental impact of one ceramic mug. That's a consideration I'm personally curious about...
- habosa 8y agoSorry I meant the environmental break even point. The same as your ceramics question
- Dirlewanger 8y agoNot only that, but people still throw them out anyway. That's what the City of Austin found out when they banned single use bags a couple years back, and HEB (largest grocer in the area) started selling reusable bags: people were still treating them as single use (presumably because they were under a dollar and readily available at checkout) and throwing them out, causing more waste than the single use ones.