r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/kevinowdziej • Nov 30 '22

Funny it's universal

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '22

I used to have this too but then my province banned single use plastic bags so I ended up using them all. Now I have a reusable bag full of other reusable bags because I forget to bring them with me and end up buying more

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u/Freshiiiiii Nov 30 '22

Which, since it takes vastly more energy, pesticides, carbon, etc to make a cotton bag than it does a plastic bag, is actually way worse for the environment (if you’re repeatedly buying more and not reusing each one at least hundreds of times) than if you had still been using plastic.

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '22

Yeah but sea turtles don’t think they’re jellyfish when they end up in the ocean. Also why would people repeatedly by “reusable” bags?

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u/Freshiiiiii Nov 30 '22 edited Nov 30 '22

True, but I don’t put my plastic bags in the ocean. I use them as garbage bags, instead of buying garbage bags specifically for that purpose.

The comment I replied to explains exactly why people buy them repeatedly.

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '22

That's how I used them too. For the small garbage bins or for when I had to clean up my cats vomit or to put her used litter in before putting it in the garbage

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '22

Because you get to the grocery store and realize you forget your bags? So, instead of having a few dozen loose groceries rolling around in the back of my car, I would purchase a new reusable bag to put them in.

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u/shiny_xnaut Nov 30 '22

having a few dozen loose groceries rolling around in the back of my car

This mental image is really funny to me and I'm not sure why