“See also: E-coli.”
Yeah. I’ve seen reports showing that the re-usable shopping bags are teeming with all kinds of disgusting and seriously dangerous crud. The up-side is that it’s the greenies using the bags primarily; maybe it’s God’s way of culling out the weirdos.
If laundering the bags after each use would help with this safety issue, then we’re using more electricity, putting more used detergent into the ground water, etc. Then they’d complain about that and insist on using paper again.
E-Coli has been an issue.
Bumping your post as being very well informed and just downright common sense.