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I think this really needs to be solved on a human psyche level. Print a QR code on durable plastic/cloth bags that you can buy from stores and then you can chec

by Meai 7y ago

I think this really needs to be solved on a human psyche level. Print a QR code on durable plastic/cloth bags that you can buy from stores and then you can check your green score after each visit to the store where you reused your bag. Make bags a fashion statement with customized prints, at that point you can even let people move over their green points to a new bag if they want a new one or it fails on them.

camjohnson26 7y ago
It would be even better to rethink the entire grocery store model with a more heavy focus on delivery than to try to change human behavior with incentives. Plastic bags are what the market has currently chosen as the lowest cost, highest value method of getting goods from the store to your home. Trying to force people to use a different bag will not work. Where I live the city banned single use plastic bags, now they just use the thicker ones instead and give out just as many, which are honestly worse for the environment. If single use bags are the current easiest solution to the problem then we need to find an even easier, more environmentally friendly way to help people transfer their goods. Delivery services might be the best.