Plastic bag bans and fees reduce harmful bag litter on shorelines

Re:Plastic bag bans and fees reduce harmful bag litter on sh... by bluefirebrand on Saturday June 21, 2025 @11:56AM (#44338505)

I promise you this is true

Especially with delivery services where a store will deliver your order to your door, you just keep accumulating more and more of those "reusable" bags. But the reality is that you really only need so many reusable bags, so when you keep getting more you have to do something with them

Bags should have a deposit and a "return excess bags for a refund" system like bottles do

Otherwise they are going to go to landfills, no question

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Re:Plastic bag bans and fees reduce harmful bag litter on sh... by rectang on Saturday June 21, 2025 @12:43PM (#44338891)

I have only ordered groceries once because of all the "reusable" bags I got stuck with.

Those things are incredibly durable. I have two as my backup grocery bags and I've been using the same ones for nearly a decade.

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Re:Plastic bag bans and fees reduce harmful bag litter on sh... by jay_kyburz on Saturday June 21, 2025 @05:38PM (#44340928)

Your country is just a little behind. Groceries and takeout food comes in paper bags now.

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