Anecdotally, it has made things worse. The shopping bags were already being reused as garbage bags, now I have to buy rolls of single use plastic bags instead. Worse, those tote bags are everywhere now, and so much less ecological.
I don’t see that. Where I live, plastic bags had gotten so thin and shitty over the years that they already weren’t suitable to reuse as trash bags any longer. It usually doesn’t matter that my grocery bag has holes but I do care if my trash bag has holes. So I already had to buy single use bags for trash
Current reusable bags are thicker and don’t usually have holes but are still unsuitable because they cost 10¢ for each
you do realize the rolls of garbage bags are much thinner and lower quality, right? Shopping bags have to be thick, strong, and printed in nice colours.
Meanwhile garbage bags can be made of out the lowest grade recycled plastic possible and extremely thin, because they don’t have to bear much weight and it’s specifically going into the trash anyways.
…You could also just buy paper bags for your trash…
You don’t still collect them from random places? A bunch of places near me still use plastic bags, either the heavier ones or the plain old thin ones even if they’re not supposed to. But they’re few and far between so it’s not a problem. I save those ones and use them for the bathroom trash can.
You don’t have to buy garbage bags, you can just put stuff in the bin unbagged.
The heavier plastic bags do contain more plastic which I guess is arguably worse but they get reused and don’t get picked up by a slight breeze and wafted into the nearest waterway.
Depends on your collection service. If they don’t specify bagged waste you can just hose the bin out as needed. A tiny bit of extra work to avoid needless plastic in the environment.
Anecdotally, it has made things worse. The shopping bags were already being reused as garbage bags, now I have to buy rolls of single use plastic bags instead. Worse, those tote bags are everywhere now, and so much less ecological.
I don’t see that. Where I live, plastic bags had gotten so thin and shitty over the years that they already weren’t suitable to reuse as trash bags any longer. It usually doesn’t matter that my grocery bag has holes but I do care if my trash bag has holes. So I already had to buy single use bags for trash
Current reusable bags are thicker and don’t usually have holes but are still unsuitable because they cost 10¢ for each
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you do realize the rolls of garbage bags are much thinner and lower quality, right? Shopping bags have to be thick, strong, and printed in nice colours.
Meanwhile garbage bags can be made of out the lowest grade recycled plastic possible and extremely thin, because they don’t have to bear much weight and it’s specifically going into the trash anyways.
…You could also just buy paper bags for your trash…
You don’t still collect them from random places? A bunch of places near me still use plastic bags, either the heavier ones or the plain old thin ones even if they’re not supposed to. But they’re few and far between so it’s not a problem. I save those ones and use them for the bathroom trash can.
You don’t have to buy garbage bags, you can just put stuff in the bin unbagged.
The heavier plastic bags do contain more plastic which I guess is arguably worse but they get reused and don’t get picked up by a slight breeze and wafted into the nearest waterway.
That’s gross. You wouldn’t do that with your kitchen trash can, I don’t know why you’d suggest it in the bathroom.
My kitchen waste goes into paper bags when that is what I get from grocery store.
Depends on your collection service. If they don’t specify bagged waste you can just hose the bin out as needed. A tiny bit of extra work to avoid needless plastic in the environment.
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