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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse
The extra reusable bags definitely required extra energy and resources to create, but unless they end up getting tossed away into the environment without ever getting significant productive use then that's the main issue. Plastic waste in the ocean and other waterways is actually getting to be a fairly big problem. I personally have a few of the small fold-up nylon bags and tend to keep one with me either in my pocket or backpack so I don't usually have that problem. It's not practical to carry the bulky reusable bags but the ones I use fold down to the size of maybe a small computer mouse.
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CBC just had a piece on this and while they didn’t really have any study to back up the segment, most people interviewed seemed to have 30 or so reusable bags lying around at home tucked away in a corner somewhere. It’s probably safe to say that the majority of these bags don’t get reused.
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7092380