> Reusable shopping bags once, which estimated you’d need to use your tote for at least 5 times a week, ten years or more, to offset the emissions caused to man

> Reusable shopping bags once, which estimated you’d need to use your tote for at least 5 times a week, ten years or more, to offset the emissions caused to manufacture it. This is obviously misinformation. Any time some industry is under attack, then all of a sudden “studies” appear that show these wild numbers that “prove” the status quo is “actually better for sure really I promise”, I don’t even need to read further. They either made up the data completely, or cherry-picked to such a level that it would only apply in the most unrealistic scenario. A key clue here is the focus on manufacturing energy costs. What about the ongoing environmental impact of discarded bags clogging up rivers and oceans? What about the degradation into microplastic? There are probably dozens of other factors also not accounted for in studies like that.