Re: Self serve checkout
By: Dumas Walker to MRO on Wed Dec 20 2023 09:00 am
> I thought so also. IMHO, if someone was concerned about the environment,
> they'd buy some of the more sturdy (usually cloth or some synthetic) bags
> and take those into the store with them. The bags in question, being
> similar to the regular bags, just thicker, don't seem like something you
> could keep around near as long as the reusable alternatives, and also don't
> seem like something that would disintegrate as fast as the regular plastic
> bags. Sounds more like a lose-lose.
>
A sturdy reusable bag takes as much plastic to produce as 40 expendable bags.
I am not sure most people uses reusable bags for long enough to break even.
Some people does but I don't think most do.
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