• iocase@lemmy.zip
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    56 minutes ago

    The reusable bags mandated in my country are now just even more wasteful disposable bags… Especially when they’re made out of this plastic that goes brittle and dry rots over time. Eventually the bag can’t hold anything without ripping so it needs to be thrown out. Sometimes in less than a year…

    • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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      1 day ago

      well we did until they made us buy a heavier duty product that takes way more resources to get inside my house

    • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      I used to, until my state made stores stop giving out plastic bags.

      Now I have to buy trash bags. But I go out of my way to buy compostable ones because buying single-use plastic to replace double-used plastic would defeat the point of all of this.

  • BillyTheKid2@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    I unironically want them. No more plastic bags where I live, so I’m running on reserve. I only have a few years stockpile left.

    • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      I have the new plastic bags, here. The ones that are supposed to replace the old ones, but are just THICC plastic and cost $0.10-$0.50 each. You’d think I’d go “oh wow, more robust, is better!” But it feels so much less guilt free and so not only do I not get them as often, but don’t use them because it would be wasteful if I did use them, and they’re still a shitty “disposable” plastic bag and not trustworthy for important stuff.

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      1 day ago

      You mean the very thin single use ones? What do you need them for and can’t you buy them? Can’t you use other kind of bags?

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        1 day ago

        can’t you buy them

        I mean, that’s the point; you didn’t have to. Never had to think about it, they were just there and free, accumulated from the groceries I brought home. I used them for small trashcan liners and to clean out the cat litterbox.

      • BillyTheKid2@lemmy.ca
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        1 day ago

        Yeah I use other bags for other things now. I used cloth for groceries and instead of reusing the grocery bag, now I buy plastic garbage bags…

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      2 days ago

      we also have to pull the local supermarket ones out and use them first, because they’re made of a different plastic that turns to flakes and powder after a year or two.

  • k0e3@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Does she have any ziplocks? That’s where the real value is.

  • raman_klogius@ani.social
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    2 days ago

    2 is 1, 1 is none.

    There should be 2 plastic bags of plastic bags. 1 to hold clean food safe bags, the other to hold non clean bags to line the garbage baskets.

  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Which one, paper or plastic? The good ones, or the small ones, or the regular ones, or the big ones?

  • pH3ra@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    “They were never used as I kept forgetting them at home, so to my great-grandchildren I leave this mountain of semi-decomposed disposable bags I never threw away just in case”