This. HDPE lasts. So reuse it.

Cardboard not so much, but where I live one can just take how many boxes one can haul off various shops and they will just thank you.

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ehnto 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

You can bring your own, non-plastic bags. I do wonder if maybe some cultures just don't have this and so the deprecation of plastic bags has left everyone quite confused.

It's a very solved problem, has been for centuries probably. You can even get some with little wheels! If you absolutely can't handle the looseness of the fruits amongst your shopping, you could use string nets.

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latexr a day ago | parent | next [-]

> You can bring your own, non-plastic bags.

For sure. But reusing the plastic bag you already have is cheaper and more environmentally friendly than buying a new cloth bag, yet many people never even think of using the same plastic bag twice. Even if some food juice spills inside, you can quickly rinse it off, hang it, and it’s good as new.

In my original reply I was trying to convey that you can be the laziest, most forgetful person, and still have an easy solution.

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geerlingguy 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Reusable shopping bags have been a thing for a long time, but I think for many, they never went back to them after stores banned them as a Covid mitigation.

	▲	ehnto 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Oh interesting, I don't think we had that ban where I live. We had many, many restrictions, but not that one.

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privatelypublic a day ago | parent | prev [-]

We farm trees for paper anyway.