[rietta]

We use grocery bags as trash bags for the small bathroom bins. Also to contain poopy diapers for sanitation purposes. The thicker plastic bags Kroger has uses for their pickup service are harder to use for this. Also are not being reused since they always use new bags with every order. I save the bags we don’t use and place them in the bin outside Publix or Home Depot. Ironically the Kroger drop off pin appears to have been removed.

[nomilk]

> (Kroger plastic bags) are not being reused since they always use new bags with every order

The false economy is frustrating, boarding on disingenuous.

Upon Australia's ban of single use plastic bags, many stores switched to "reusable" plastic bags which were composed of about 10x more plastic. I saw very few people "reusing" these bags at the checkout, suggesting they went into landfill at a very similar rate to the single use ones, but just with 10x the plastic.

[normalaccess]

Bingo... at the end of the day plastic manufactures are able to sell MORE plastic while looking like an angel.

not to mention stores get to markup the bags they do sell and boom, another revenue stream.

It's all a farce posed as roses and care.

[rietta]

I have started to come around to thinking that as a practical matter as an individuL, making sure things actually make it into an actual bona fide landfill and ate buried is the most ecologically friendly thing we can do. All the other alternatives seem to break down and end up with stuff either not being encapsulated and impacting the environment that way, or shipped off to other countries and ending up in the oceans.