[molmalo]

> The alternatives require more reuse than actually occurs.

Where I live, we banned plastic bags in 2017. Every store at first sold cloth bags, for buyers who didn't bring their own. Some weeks later, everyone had several reusable bags, that they would bring when buying stuff, not a hard thing to do.

Those bags last even years, so I don't understand why you think people wouldn't reuse them. They actually are quite better (they don't make my fingers hurt, won't break so easily, etc).

[dogma1138]

Because there is a study showing that some bags needs to be reused 50,000 times, degradable plastic bags which are then reused as rubbish bags or put into recycling are a better option than the trendy cloth bags that have a pretty substantial environmental impact and not the beneficial kind.

I don’t know about you but even if a bag lasts for years I don’t think it will be reused more than 1000 times.

[zaarn]

It's not 50000 times. It's 131 times. Paper bags 3 times.

You can use a cloth bag 131 times easily.

https://stanfordmag.org/contents/paper-plastic-or-reusable

If like you assume the bag will not be used more than 1000 times, it beats it's target to be better than plastic bags by a factor of 10.

[imtringued]

Ok then make a sturdy and reusable plastic bag.