Re:The known unknowns of plastic pollution
by olejorgenb on Monday December 24, 2018 @09:10PM
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The cotton bags I've seen in Norway are usually about 2/3 the size of a standard plastic bag. I usually just reuse the plastic bags - some bags are needed for garbage so this works well.
Re:The known unknowns of plastic pollution
by mikeash on Monday December 24, 2018 @09:26PM
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Interesting. In the US, the standard plastic grocery bag is really small, to an almost idiotic degree sometimes. (A particularly large box of cereal may not fit in one at all!) Typical reusable bags are much larger.
This is a significant difference because reusable bags are usually a lot larger and a lot stronger. In my experience, one use of a reusable bag substitutes for something like five plastic bags. That makes the breakeven point arrive a lot faster.