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I don’t know that anyone’s minds have really changed regarding disposable products. The situation is what changed, so that we now tend to think disposable products are okay for the moment given the pandemic.

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Right, but will the worries about sanitation fade quickly enough or will we just accept that disposables are cleaner despite the environmental impact?

In the short term I'd say it makes sense to me, but long term I really hope we find other solutions.

It took years of nudges and eventual laws to seriously reduce a lot of single use plastics. Do you want to be the politician basically requiring the use of reusable plastic bags again? Or getting back into things that were always silly like plastic straw bans? It will be a decade before you reverse the switch to plastic bags.

In many places the switch has already occured back to disposable plastic bags i.e., it's getting them to switch back again to reusable is the question. How long will the public etc. accept the continued use of disposable? It could be years..

Reusable bags aren't even allowed in Massachusetts. I'd be surprised if that changed anytime soon and who knows if the laws requiring you to pay for "multi-use" plastic bags in some locales if you don't bring your own will "ever" end up being reinstated.

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