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Cool so I would just buy a roll of 2000 of them on Amazon for like $10 that I keep in the car.

cqqxo4zV46cp 3y ago
You could also put in about the same amount of effort and do something much more environmentally conscious at the expense of being less childishly subversive. I guess you’ve gotta decide if that tradeoff is worth it.
- jaybaxter 3y ago
  I wouldn't say they were being childishly subversive -- it is very unclear that paper bags are better than plastic bags for the environment. "Manufacturing a paper bag takes about four times as much energy as it takes to produce a plastic bag" "Studies have shown that, for a paper bag to neutralize its environmental impact compared to plastic, it would have to be used anywhere from three to 43 times." https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/sustainable-shoppingwhich-bag-best/ https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/sustainabl...
  - redserk 3y ago
    If you're going through the effort of carrying your own bags, why use a disposable bag at all? Bringing up the harms of a paper bag is not really pertinent.
  - newaccount74 3y ago
    But they rot and don't end up in the sea.
- ajkjk 3y ago
  Hah, this is funny. This is the sort of scathing comment that HN doesn't like and normally I'd be downvoting it also but for once I really agree.
- animal531 3y ago
  It's not the little guy with his plastic straw that's the problem when the greater majority of waste is coming from the big corporations and dirty nations. Then to top it off you have billionaires like Taylor Swift who uses their private jets to fly a 15 minute trip instead of taking a 25 minute car ride. Give it another 50 years and the little guy will need to be eating bugs to be environmentally conscious while the people on top still do exactly what they did before.
- coffeeling 3y ago
  Pissing off hairshirt environmentalists is always worth it on principle. A bunch of their policies are more about annoying humans than being more ecological. eg. hyper efficient slow as molasses dishwashers are such a pain to use they prompt people to hand wash instead of using a dishwasher, which uses noticeably more water than somewhat more wasteful, but fast and effective dishwashers do. The EPA doesn't care.
Lammy 3y ago
I do this with individually-wrapped plastic straws because I can't stand the texture of the paper ones on my lips

You could also put in about the same amount of effort and do something much more environmentally conscious at the expense of being less childishly subversive. I guess you’ve gotta decide if that tradeoff is worth it.

jaybaxter 3y ago
I wouldn't say they were being childishly subversive -- it is very unclear that paper bags are better than plastic bags for the environment. "Manufacturing a paper bag takes about four times as much energy as it takes to produce a plastic bag" "Studies have shown that, for a paper bag to neutralize its environmental impact compared to plastic, it would have to be used anywhere from three to 43 times." https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/sustainable-shoppingwhich-bag-best/ https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/sustainabl...
- redserk 3y ago
  If you're going through the effort of carrying your own bags, why use a disposable bag at all? Bringing up the harms of a paper bag is not really pertinent.
- newaccount74 3y ago
  But they rot and don't end up in the sea.
ajkjk 3y ago
Hah, this is funny. This is the sort of scathing comment that HN doesn't like and normally I'd be downvoting it also but for once I really agree.
animal531 3y ago
It's not the little guy with his plastic straw that's the problem when the greater majority of waste is coming from the big corporations and dirty nations. Then to top it off you have billionaires like Taylor Swift who uses their private jets to fly a 15 minute trip instead of taking a 25 minute car ride. Give it another 50 years and the little guy will need to be eating bugs to be environmentally conscious while the people on top still do exactly what they did before.
coffeeling 3y ago
Pissing off hairshirt environmentalists is always worth it on principle. A bunch of their policies are more about annoying humans than being more ecological. eg. hyper efficient slow as molasses dishwashers are such a pain to use they prompt people to hand wash instead of using a dishwasher, which uses noticeably more water than somewhat more wasteful, but fast and effective dishwashers do. The EPA doesn't care.

Lammy 3y ago

I do this with individually-wrapped plastic straws because I can't stand the texture of the paper ones on my lips