Talk:Reusable shopping bag

Mergee

Bag for life is a British name and the article describes such bags in use in UK. Babakathy (talk) 11:43, 1 March 2009 (UTC) I agree with this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.125.19.37 (talk) 19:40, 25 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Content Reorganization

I suggest the content for reusable shopping bags use the following Headings: History, Function, Design (integrated handles, folding into its own envelope, belt loop, etc.), Composition (nylon, cotton, hemp fibre, canvas, etc.), Durability ("one less bag", social mores about branding), Management (eventual reuse or recycling of a busted reusable shopping bag), Environmental effects (reduced disposable bag use with known ecosystem impact, increased resource requirements per reusable bag; note that the shopping bag is only the last container in the overall supply chain that can generate a lot of packaging waste.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.67.6.14 (talk) 22:11, 27 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

American Chemistry Council

It appears much of the information in this article is directly from one of two places. (1) The American Chemistry Council or (2) thetruthaboutplasticbags.com

Many of the claims have no reference in this article other then the self referencing back to these two sites. This article has a ton of problems and smacks of a PR group editing the page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.100.144.8 (talk) 19:29, 26 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Intro

I am not sure what to do about the the statement in the first paragraph "Reusable shopping bags require less natural resources such as oil and less emission of carbon dioxide to produce that plastic bags." Somebody had this written in as the justification of "citation needed": dubious as stated; only re-use makes them less polluting, production of a single bag each is likely the other way round, entered in February of 2011.

I didn't notice this until today, but I agree with them. Only reuse would make the bags environmental impact go down, but initially, the reusable bag uses more resources. The "hope" is that people use them enough to make up the difference, but it doesn't explain that right now. I am going to try to find some stats on this and re-frame this. If anyone has any insights on this, please weigh in. I am going to do my best to clean it up. Jeannetttt76 (talk) 12:08, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]