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It's a trade off between traditional waste and carbon dioxide. You will be dead before you recoup the total energy costs that went into the likely exorbitant an
by tetraca 7y ago
It's a trade off between traditional waste and carbon dioxide. You will be dead before you recoup the total energy costs that went into the likely exorbitant and absurd steps of building and shipping your cloth bag halfway around the world assembled from materials gathered thousands of miles apart, compared to the cost of using a plastic bag each and every time. But you're consuming less single use plastic that is possibly going to get dumped into the ocean and trash the food chain.
- codingdave 7y agoWhy would you ship a cloth bag from halfway around the world? It is a cloth bag. It is something we teach our kids to make from old shirts they grow out of. I know society has moved deep into the paradigm of buying everything and making nothing, but there are some items that make no sense to buy, and cloth bags are one of them.
- jjeaff 7y agoYou can make almost anything you use. But in modern society, you definitely have to pick your battles.
- tetraca 7y agoSociety has effectively abandoned and destroyed a large section of do-it-yourself culture in favor of a rapid and disposable one. I'd wager that most people would not even consider the idea of making a cloth bag, and of those that would consider it a lot would not know how to do such a task, even if all that were involved is just sewing shut the holes of a shirt to make a sack, because their parents and their parent's parents were already fully immersed in atomized, disposable culture.
- codingdave 7y agoYeah. Unfortunately, that means we are having the wrong discussions, not just here, but with the people in our lives. If most people have abandoned DIY and want to purchase, and ship worldwide, every item we use, then paper vs. plastic vs. cloth isn't even a drop in the bucket of the environmental impact our lifestyle choices have on the world.