[karpov]

The problem is that reusable bags are much thicker, so that in the UK, where they tax disposable plastic bags, the total amount of plastic used in grocery bags has increased, since so many reusable bags are being sold. Another problem is that Bags for life can pose food poisoning risk. "Bags for life" is the UK politically correct term for reusable plastic bags.

[BuffaloJack]

About 15 years ago, laws were passed to include starch in the plastic used for bags. The starch is biodegradable and the plastic that is left is micro sized. The bags take about 2 years to degrade. It’s also the reason that when you hang a bag up in your garage with something in it, it becomes fragile and tears easily a year or two later.

[dila813]

I watched a bunch of people at the store using additional plastic bags for liners for their reusable bags. I asked one of them and they said their are buying those super thin bags to get their reusable bags clean. Most of the reusable bags aren’t washable apparently.

[mom of young patriots]

Our attorney general in Texas just got the bag ban bagged for all Texas cities and I couldn’t be happier. By proclamation of the Austin Oligarchy, we lived under the boot heel of a bag ban for 5 years and it was all about empty virtue signaling. Whether or not a person uses film bags or reusable cloth bags is entirely an individual preference. That ban was all about control. We have far bigger issues to worry about while hand wringing liberals are micro fretting over how best to manipulate and dispirit us.

[Drew68]

A new report from the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and Greenpeace looking at grocery stores in the UK suggests that the plastic “bags for life” utterly failed to do the one thing they were ostensibly meant to.