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Wait till you hear about the plastic bag crazy. Pretty much all the chains got rid of them in my area and began selling the reusable bags. At about 2.50 each. One store I liked used to have old cardboard boxes but they want you to buy the reusable bags as they make about 2 dollars in profit per bag and the average costumer buys 1 bag per 100 in groceries. That alone is a2% increase on average in profits for the grocery chain. That is huge for them.
Worse is that they take about 50 times the energy to produce and they figure the average bag is only used 5 times before they end in a land fill. The net result is a 2.5% increase in your grocery bill and almost 10 times the increase in GHG compared to a plastic bag.
Alright, this is just some silly shit right here. I have 8-10 reusable bags in my car I use every time I go to the grocery store. I've been using them for years. I threw away one so far. Who the fuck only uses them 5x?
UK supermarkets stats in 2019 showed some 1.5 billion used in 2019. That is 57 or household every year. So the vast majority are just throwing them away. Most likely they just don't want to carry them around and opt out to buy new ones. This is particularly likely if you use public transportation I suspect.
The "reusable" bags sold at supermarkets in Canada at least are really shitty. You're lucky to get 5 uses before the handles rip off or groceries punch right through the flimsy plastic fabric.
If you're serious about reusing bags you buy your own well made bags, but if you forgot to bring them or made an impulse buy congratulations, you now own a set of overpriced, very low quality bags... At least you'll be rid of them in a week or two lol
I use them for tasks like giving away vegetables from my garden but honestly that was a fine use for the "non-reusable" bags, we reused them constantly. They even got recycled into deck boards, the new "reusable" ones just end up in the dump.
Walmart sells the shit ones that wouldn't last in the US. Most places I go don't. I wouldn't buy those. Last time I went on vacation and didnt think to bring any I just didn't use a bag and carried armfuls of groceries in instead of buying that flimsy crap.
I don't understand people who live in areas that don't allow plastic bags anymore who wouldn't think to buy some decent ones. They just go back in my car after I unload groceries and they last for years. It's such a weird thing to not be able to handle.