Re: Pearls Before Swine: Rat The Luddite

On Thu, 15 Aug 2024 13:06:58 -0400, Cryptoengineer
<petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/14/2024 9:13 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

<snippo>

I use cloth bags....

>
What cloth? Is it a natural fiber? Or is it polyester/dacron, etc?

Mine were -- well, they appeared to me to be -- canvas. But, whatever
they were, if they were not a natural fiber, they were very well
disguised.

I call my current bags (boxes, as noted elsewhere) "plastic" and they
are in fact polypropylene. One specifies "unwoven" but that is the
only one that even looks like cloth. I use them for as long as I can.
The ones the boxes replaced were probably a third duct tape, they had
been patched so much. (I once had a pair that had handles so long I
had to tie them off so I could carry them without the back dragging on
the ground and lasting maybe one or two uses, which led to my
discovery that duct tape could be used to repair the damage -- as I
say, this is a game that never ends).

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?

Who can say? Particularly since the cardboard inside the polypropylene
makes them heavier than bags of polypropylene alone are.
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