Re: Pearls Before Swine: Rat The Luddite

On 8/20/24 09:23, Cryptoengineer wrote:

On 8/20/2024 4:34 AM, D wrote:

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On Mon, 19 Aug 2024, Joy Beeson wrote:
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On Thu, 15 Aug 2024 13:06:58 -0400, Cryptoengineer
<petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
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If its a plastic fiber, you've done little or nothing to reduce
plastic waste. How many single-use bags are required to equal the
weight of your reusable?

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Despite being washed in hot water with bleach, my reusable bags were
well over thirty years old when I set them next to a leaking battery
and they all got large holes in the bottom.
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Note that it is not the age, but how many times you reuse them. I think common knowledge is that you must use one of those reusables about 10 000 times in order for it to come out favourably against single use plastic bags.
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Needless to say, many hip and woke teenagers, probably throw them away after a month or two when they become dirty or when a new shiny one is received at the next convention.

  https://sites.psu.edu/marabelleolivia/2021/02/25/are-reusable-bags-worth-it/
 This site, which is mainly concerned with greenhouse gases, points
out that all the reusables use more resources per bag than the
single use ones, but works out the break-even points:
 Paper: 4 uses
Polypropylene: 14
Cotton: 173
 So, it looks like the plastic reusables are a lot better than I
thought.
 pt
 

But they do not beat the natural fibre bags at all.
I use plastics to protect the books going to and
from the library, I use plastics for the damp fruits and
vegetables I buy at the Farmer Market. I carry them around
in a cotton canvas bag that lasts years.  Before FibroMyalgia
set in I used a backpack to carry purchases etc. home but
the FM turned both shoulders into pain producing points.
Now a canvas bag on my shoulder and a bag in each hand is
about the best I can manage if I don't weigth the shoulder
bag down with more than 4 lbs.
bliss - who may or may not refer to herself as the
old bag with a Bag full of bags.
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