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Good. They are a plague. However, I admit that occasionally, if I've forgotten my cup or couldn't bring it, I still use them. Rarely, but it happens. The solut

Good. They are a plague. However, I admit that occasionally, if I've forgotten my cup or couldn't bring it, I still use them. Rarely, but it happens. The solution I want to see, for both coffee cups and shopping bags - is reusable shared containers. I don't want to have to bring my bags to the supermarket. It's not just a matter of laziness or forgetfulness - sure, sometimes I forget. But it's also a matter of ability. Sometimes I want to buy food on the way home from work, but I don't drive there and it's not really practical to bring my reusable bags every time. Let me pay a deposit to take some reusable bags with me, then let me just bring them all back at once and get a refund. Coffee cups are a bit harder since they need to be washed, but I'm sure there's a solution.

zikzak 7y ago
Shopping bags need to be washed, too. Meat juices, being set down on dirty surfaces (bus stop, muddy driveway), left for a week in a house with pests or vermin, etc. Most people are not going to want to reuse someone else's reusable bag without laundering.
- DangitBobby 7y ago
  The crux of all of these issues is that we want the benefits of containers without the consequences. Well, we're learning that you have to deal with it at some point, be it the occasional washing or mountains of trash. People are going to have to just suck it up about reusing things. As long as it's safe, people's feelings about perceived ickiness will go away once the practice is normalized. And eventually we won't even remember how convenient it was to just throw things away.
  - defterGoose 7y ago
    This soooooo much. 'But Ma Freedoms™!?!?'
- kristopolous 7y ago
  Flipping it inside out every time would solve most of these problems. The scraps would come out and thinks would get a chance to evaporate. It's not a luxury product solution, sure. But if I was traveling to a poor country and everyone was doing it, I'd consider it clever and just go along with it.

zikzak 7y ago

Shopping bags need to be washed, too. Meat juices, being set down on dirty surfaces (bus stop, muddy driveway), left for a week in a house with pests or vermin, etc. Most people are not going to want to reuse someone else's reusable bag without laundering.

DangitBobby 7y ago
The crux of all of these issues is that we want the benefits of containers without the consequences. Well, we're learning that you have to deal with it at some point, be it the occasional washing or mountains of trash. People are going to have to just suck it up about reusing things. As long as it's safe, people's feelings about perceived ickiness will go away once the practice is normalized. And eventually we won't even remember how convenient it was to just throw things away.
- defterGoose 7y ago
  This soooooo much. 'But Ma Freedoms™!?!?'
kristopolous 7y ago
Flipping it inside out every time would solve most of these problems. The scraps would come out and thinks would get a chance to evaporate. It's not a luxury product solution, sure. But if I was traveling to a poor country and everyone was doing it, I'd consider it clever and just go along with it.