>People still view them as disposable though
No way this is true, not when the bag costs about 30% of what I usually buy per trip.
No way this is true, not when the bag costs about 30% of what I usually buy per trip.
Especially with delivery services where a store will deliver your order to your door, you just keep accumulating more and more of those "reusable" bags. But the reality is that you really only need so many reusable bags, so when you keep getting more you have to do something with them
Bags should have a deposit and a "return excess bags for a refund" system like bottles do
Otherwise they are going to go to landfills, no question
Those things are incredibly durable. I have two as my backup grocery bags and I've been using the same ones for nearly a decade.
The price is normally the legislated minimum, 10¢. So your average shopping trip is ~33¢?
I think the issue here is one of semantics. The so-called "reusable" bags you're talking about are still classified as single-use plastics.
If you look at BC as an example, where ALL single-use plastic bags at checkouts are banned, people have adapted just fine. In some stores (like restaurants) you can buy paper bags for 25¢, but generally people either don't bother with bags at all and simply load things directly into their cars, or they bring their own bags or baskets. Now, pretty much the only litter I regularly see is paper coffee cups or candy wrappers. Bags have disappeared, and bottles and cans usually collected for the deposit.
Where are you seeing 10-15 dollar bags? I can only imagine that’s happening because your locality added a major tax to them
Also I get delivery groceries from BJ’s and they have been including piles of these giant reuseable bags in each order to the point that I have been donating them to a homeless shelter.
I produced less plastic waste with grocery bags back when they were the size and shape to be reused as bathroom garbage bags, anecdata and real data all points to them being used frivolously still