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Where? Sounds improbable if the reusable bag is made of plastic (does it weigh 30 pounds empty?) and implausible if not.
by dahart 6y ago
Where? Sounds improbable if the reusable bag is made of plastic (does it weigh 30 pounds empty?) and implausible if not.
- YetAnotherNick 6y agoI tried to check the net. I couldn't find exact 3000 number, but the highest number I could find is that cotton bag must be used 7000 times. It varies according to the source though. If I remember correctly I read 3000 number for jute bag. Source: https://phys.org/news/2018-08-reuse-bags.html https://phys.org/news/2018-08-reuse-bags.html . It has pdf linked of the Danish government study.
- dahart 6y agoI also googled it and found multiple different results with numbers more like 100 times (which is quite easy to achieve in practice). I didn’t immediately find any results in the thousands, but isn’t looking for the highest number going to produce the statistically least likely outlier? I think fixating on number of reuses to meet equal carbon footprint is fraught with problems and painting an incomplete picture though, this doesn’t really account for things like plastic production & waste toxicity, or the fact that plastic is non-renewable while cotton is renewable. https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=urs_2017 https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?ar... https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/climate/plastic-paper-shopping-bags.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/climate/plastic-paper-sho... https://stanfordmag.org/contents/paper-plastic-or-reusable https://stanfordmag.org/contents/paper-plastic-or-reusable