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And instead we kill a lot more trees and plants to make expensive cotton or polyester bags that are much worse for the environment as a whole. It’s typical left leaning feel good logic instead of actually improving something. Not to mention the inconvenience

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Cotton bags are not "much worse for the possibility environment". They only need to be used 131 times to beat out 131 plastic bags.

That's three years of weekly groceries. I plan to shop much longer than three years. Closer to 30.

You expect people to keep these bags for 3 years? No way

Most of my cotton shopping bags are 15+ years old and still going strong.

The cheap plastic-based fiber ones have not held up nearly as well.

Troll somewhere else

I’m not trolling I care about the environment. Cotton bags are just a form of moral licensing and predatory ways to get more income. Same with plastic straws.

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