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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zULqF_sttJw

If you’re driving, just load it into your cart, then load it into your car, then load it into your bag, and take it inside. If you’re taking a bike or the bus, I’m sorry about your 37 reusable bags.

I don't understand how you people can go outside without a bag, let alone an extra bag inside it. How can you just go places with no inventory slots???

In England we call them “bags for life” which I imagine is because they will just stay around forever and multiply because you keep forgetting them.

Keep the bags, or at least a few, in your car.

I just throw it all in my car and transfer it to bags when I get home.

I have a great system where I load up a lot of bags into my car so I basically always have access to reusable bags when I drive to the store. And then I promptly forget the bags in the car when I shop and end up with freaking single use plastic anyways.

Too real

I'm still hacked off that the bag fee was created only as a punishment for single use plastic bags, then once plastic bags were phased out the cunts kept it in and raised the cost with different tiers of biodegradable, reusable and woven bags.

Me putting 6 (3 more than I'm sure I'll need) in my backpack (which is storage overkill now) and then since I'm like a primitive creature or something where if I don't see it it doesn't exist, I forget that I have the bags after checking out.

Get a foldable bag that you can stuff in your main carryon (purse, backpack, etc) in the event you forget

It's a good backup. Just gotta put it back once you unload everything or else you forget about it

Speaking of forgetful, don't forget to run those bags through the wash every now and then.

Those things will harbor some nasty bacteria if you let them.

Curse of ADHD.

Only way I’ve found around it is to throw a few bags right back in the car after unloading.

I get boxes from work and just keep a couple in the back of my truck, also keeps my groceries from sliding around the bed. Get boxes when you can their great, I'm keeping my eyes out for a roadside milk crate to replace them though.

Just take your canvas bags ro the supermarket

when you inevitably accrue a metric fuck-ton of these please remember that a lot of charity shops (at least the ones in the UK) are grateful for them

I live in a US state that's banned plastic bags. It is always funny seeing people from other states being shocked that there isn't any plastic.

You want forgetful? My gf and I keep a whole bag of bags in the trunk of our car. Every single time we go shopping, we forget to grab them, buy one in the store, and then add it to the bags in the trunk. It's a viscous cycle.

When I'm done unloading at home, I hang them on the doorknob so I remember them next time I leave.

**The occasional plastic carrier bag is fine **

A single-use plastic bag: the sin of any environmentalist. Many of us know the agonising pain of turning up at the supermarket, then realising you’ve left your reusable shopping bags at home. The next 10 minutes is a comedy show, seeing how many items you can stuff into your pockets, clutch in your arms, and even grip between your teeth. You will not let the team down by asking for a plastic bag. I do the same. Even though I know better: the data shows us that the occasional plastic carrier bag is not that big a deal. In fact, in many ways, a single-use plastic bag is better than some alternatives. At least when it comes to the carbon footprint, it’s much lower than the rest. You’d need to use a paper bag several times, and a cotton one tens to hundreds of times to ‘break even’ with the plastic carrier.35, 36 This is also true for other environmental impacts such as water use, acidification, and the pollution of water with nutrients such as nitrogen. This doesn’t mean you should switch back to using single-use carrier bags: it just means you should make sure you’re reusing the other types of bags a lot. If you’re buying a new organic tote bag every second visit, you’re really making things worse. And as seen in previous chapters, you should be focusing much more on what you put in the bag than the bag itself. It will have a much bigger environmental impact. The problem with plastic bags, then, is that they can pollute our waterways. But, like any other form of waste, only if we don’t manage it properly. In rich countries, unless you’re littering near a river or coastline, they’re probably not going to end up in the ocean. Even sending it to landfill is not a big deal. This is a problem in low- to middle-income countries where the use of plastic bags is on the rise but the infrastructure to deal with the waste is not. That’s where tight rules on single-use plastic bags, and the availability of alternatives, really make a difference. So, be conscious of how much you’re using. Take a rucksack or a sturdy bag and reuse it again and again. But you don’t need to stress out if you reach the supermarket till and realise you’ve left it at home.

"Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet" by Hannah Ritchie

36? Those are rookie numbers 😅

The spice must flow...

On reusable bags

Just use a backpack smh