i don't mind bringing the cart/handbasket back in to the store. i just don't want to fill my pockets with bags.

Yeah, thats the way.

I put like 10 bags in my car every other... Month. Whenever I remember it.

Gotta remember to put them back in the car after bringing groceries into the house though. Also what about second car?

It isn't the case any more but there was a phase where my trunk was literally full, bottom to top not an inch to spare, of reusable bags, and they'd be forgotten.

It worked out nicely once though when I finally remembered and just grabbed a whole bag full of bags, and there was some Karen going off on the poor self checkout cashier girl about having to pay for her bags, and I was just like "here take whatever I got a trunk full", and everyone was happy.

And then Albert Einstein clapped.

Can't you just put the stuff in the trolley unbagged then bag them when you get to the car?

What have you DONE, Mahk??

If you have a reusable bag, it uses more plastic than like 100 individual bags, but it produces less waste that floats in the ocean or decays in a landfill.

It’s a complex question to answer. But, basically reusable plastic > reusable cotton > plastic > paper

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/sustainable-shoppingwhich-bag-best/

The shitty little "reusable" bags that wear out after a few uses are def worse than the micron-thin plastic were overall.

My state banned plastic a while back and I will way, i don't see bags stuck all over the bushes, roadsides and trees anymore so that's a plus.

I got a dozen or so insulated Wegmans large cooler bags that have lasted 5 years so far. (6 for each car) They're double-stitched, hardcore zippers no signs of wear. I suspect their realistic lifetime is my and my wife's death. It's not like the kids are going to pine over the bags or anything. Now the real question, assuming they're evergreen (jury is still out) is 25-35 years of waste reduction from a 0.001 disposable plastic bag actually net negative against 12 large textile bags with thick plastic liners, zippers, and insulation?

The bags probably host $200 in total and I'm quite sure I could buy a lifetime supply of disposable plastic bags for $200.

Not seeing plastic bags stuck to a tree every quarter mile feels good. I think reusable is probably the right answer, even if it's not a huge ecological win.

How much material and energy goes into making those thin plastic grocery bags? They're apparently extruded as a tube and then crimped and cut, Compare that to a woven polyester bag.

The whole "reduce, reuse, recycle" thing: I'm a woodworker, I don't buy 600 grit sandpaper for rubbing out finishes, I use paper grocery bags. So I get shop supplies for free and use less plastic. Plastic bags mostly get re-used as trash bags, only the ones that are very torn get recycled. I don't buy purpose built trash bags.

If you HAVE a re-usable bag, use it. Sure. Stacking up re-usable bags that you don't take to the store IS worse.

Yeah, I know this is a shitpost, but this typo they left in changes the entire meaning.

There are tons of businesses near my work (next to a middle school and a high school) that have a posted no backpacks allowed rule on the door. Mostly because of shoplifting, and sometimes there is a pile of backpacks outside the door and a bunch of kids inside when school lets out. But there are probably many reasons they don't want to carry a backpack when they don't have to.

Honestly i wonder why people don't do just that