[BurningFrog]

I don't doubt your numbers, but we are (or at least I am) talking about plastic bags.

I would guess they are less than 1 of those 150kg/year.

> Burning that is creating between 264 and 750kg of CO2 per person and year, definitely not insignificant.

Grok says total US CO2 emissions are "approximately 13.83 metric tons per person". I agree that 750kg (0.75 ton) is significant, but I don't thing plastic bags even affect the last decimal of that number.

[tsimionescu]

Why would we discuss plastic bags exclusively? Singling out one item like this makes little sense - the problem is the aggregate of all plastic we use, not specifically one item. If we only used plastic for our shopping bags, we wouldn't be having this discussion at all.

[BurningFrog]

My original comment was to a post claiming that "a few cents doesn't represent the actual cost" of a plastic bag.

It's far from the most important issue, but it was the one I had a disagreement with.

It sounds like you agree that plastic bags are not a big problem.