[dredmorbius]

The question is what the all-in costs are. Specifically, manufacture is not the. full lifecycle, and plastic persists in the environment for decades, if not millennia.

Alternatives which balance modest production costs, greater ruse, and biodegrade more quickly, can come out on top.

[scotty79]

Many multiple use bags are thick plastick or have thick plastic inner lining. They have less plastic than 7000 "single use" plastic bags but they don't have 0.

I hope we won't let most of our trash to persist in the environment for millenia.