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Originally Posted by freebeard

Almost forgot: Boing Boing ran a story on shopping bags. Organic cotton shopping bags have to be used 20,000 times before they're better for the Earth than plastic disposables

That sounds a little extreme, but it's something I've been giving some thought to as Salem (or is it all of Oregon?) is disallowing grocery stores from providing free bags.

It got me thinking a variety of things, like how insignificant the grocery bag is in comparison to the packaging of all the products it holds, or the fact that I'll now have to buy plastic bags to line my garbage cans with, and the $25 I just spent on Amazon to ship some heavier duty reusable bags to me, and the realization that they'll probably eventually get snagged on something and rip, and I'll have to throw the bag away and buy another one.

Then, every time I forget my reusable bags when I go grocery shopping, or simply miscalculate how many I'll need, I will resent environmentalism as a religion.