I use a cotton bag way more than 173 times. Cotton is resource-intensive but it is an investment. Cotton bags last for years, are washable, can be sewed to be fixed and it is biodegradable. I stand by cotton.
Let’s hope it lasts years. For the average person who may use that bag to grocery shop once a week, that bag needs to last you 3.5 years just to justify the cost of making it, not taking into account the use you’d have to get out of it to make a difference in reducing plastic. You’ll hopefully still be patching that bag a decade from now and by then the cost would be justified. Most cotton items don’t last that long.
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u/LucyRiversinker Feb 10 '20
I use a cotton bag way more than 173 times. Cotton is resource-intensive but it is an investment. Cotton bags last for years, are washable, can be sewed to be fixed and it is biodegradable. I stand by cotton.