In total, Britain’s Environment Agency calculated that a conventional cotton bag needed to be reused 173 times to beat plastic. Denmark’s equivalent public body estimated a similar ratio. Sufficiently well-worn cotton tote bags can beat plastic for environmental cost, but only for the most consistent among us.
Well, yeah. That’s exactly the idea. I’ve lived in plastic bag free societies for ten years now (Austin and The Netherlands). And, yes, you end up using the reusable bags more. Better (worse?), you reuse those thick-plastic ones over and over.
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