Sometimes I feel like these are the “plastic-free bag” solution[0] designed to make the market embrace the “tried and true” old way.

[0] There was this chip bag from a major chip manufacturer and it proudly claimed the bag was plastic free (might even have been compostable), but it was the thinnest, loudest, crinkliest bag you’d ever heard. It seemed like the chip manufacturer board meeting went like this: “The people want us to cut out plastic! For the environment or something. Don’t they know how much easier and more profitable plastic bags are?? You know what? If they want plastic-free we’ll give them plastic-free... We’ll make them regret even asking...”

That bag didn’t last long before it vanished never to be seen again.