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I'm crocheting the bags from under my sink into a tote bag.
(sh.itjust.works)
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Yummy microplastics!
Your new bag of bags will be made from your bag of bags. You've reached peak Midwestern.
Well they're still macroplastics for now. I'm delaying their conversion into microplastics by about 5-10 years in a way that will prevent the need for more of them.
I was kind of joking, but plastic bags create microplastics and nanoplastics through photo-degradation and manipulation. Unfortunately, stretching, tearing, cutting, and twisting plastic bags create both micro- and nano-plastics. So you're definitely creating them now, not in 5-10 years.
Avoiding microplastics is basically impossible though, so I wouldn't stress it. You should look up how much magic eraser sponges create. It was actually so crazy I decided not to use them again, even if avoiding microplastics is not realistic.
This will prevent you from using plastic bags ever again?? That's the real value. Nice job!
Probably not ever, but hopefully enough that their accumulation doesn't outpace their use picking up dogshit.
Less is great!