I’m generally in favor of pro-environmental causes, but I can’t help being suspicious of all these store campaigns to get you to buy their “green” reusable shopping bags. Yes, reusing shopping bags makes sense, both environmentally and economically. But if I stop acquiring plastic store bags, then I’m going to have to start buying plastic bags to line my wastebaskets with.
Am I being selfish? Sure. But I’m guessing I’m not the only one who reuses shopping bags as trash bags. So my guess is that what actually happens if stores stop providing plastic bags is that they wind up selling more plastic trash bags.
End result: Same number of bags in the landfill. Just a transfer in who pays for them.
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