Most stores you go into now offer reusable bags.
Almost everyone I know now forgoes plastic or paper bags in favor of "reusable" bags.
Okay..fantastic.
Sort of.
What I'm finding is that people have massive piles of reusable bags though...
and instead of reusing them they are buying more and more of them (they are so cheap after all).
My mother would be the perfect example. She has reusable bags from just about every store, and so I get passed down RB on an almost weekly basis.
But these bags aren't cloth. They don't seem to be cotton or any other natural material.
I accidently put one through the dryer a couple of weeks ago and ended up with a lot of hard black stuff stuck to the inside of the dryer.
I don't know where these bags are being made, who is making them or out of what materials.
The only thing I seem to know about them is that everyone has at LEAST 3.
So yes fair enough, they're not plastic.
But that doesn't make them the best choice.
Unless you only have one or two...and they don't break on you...or melt...
and are made using sustainable production practices.
It's really just an easy way for big corporations to make themselves look good.
Ask them to sell organic cotton, fair labour bags.
I think a lot of the bags are made of recycled plastic. Which is maybe a good use for a material that's already in existence. But I hear you on their prevalence. We have at least a dozen, many of them given to us. Overconsumption of anything is not exactly a green choice, regardless of what it is.
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