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Supermarket plastic bag charge has led to 98% drop in use in England, data shows
(www.theguardian.com)
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What is missed in this article is bags for life purchases. We saw the same article more or less in 2019 and once you factored that in there wasn't much of an improvement in plastic use or disposal. Expect the same to appear after this article at some point.
A reusable plastic bag only needs to be reused ~40 times before it is better than single use plastic bags. Are people really using them so few times that they can't hit that?
40 times is fucking wild, I maybe get 5-10 if I really go hard before I forget to bring it one time and have to buy another one
Even in that scenario, it's not like the first one goes away. Now you have two reusable bags.
Now I have 20+ until I can't store them any more so I have to throw them out*
There's no real way to get rid of surplus bags, that's the problem. So they just pile up until they go to landfill. If shops let you return bags somehow that would be fantastic.