To balance the environmental cost of one single organic cotton tote bag, you’d need to use it at least 20,000 times — or, that one bag every day for 54 years
No new totes!! Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photos:Shutterstock This morning, as I was just sitting in my apartment, quietly scanning the headlines and surrounded by the cumulative 100 tote bags various companies have gifted me through the years, I received a troubling news bulletin. This is not actually sustainable living, the New York Times reports.
The Times cites a 2018 study from Denmark’s Ministry of Environment and Food, which determined that a person would need to use one single organic cotton tote 20,000 times — or, that one bag every day for 54 years — to balance its environmental cost.
Because ugh, then what is the environmentally responsible way to cart my groceries home, if paper, cotton, and plastics all leave large environmental footprints in their wake? Should I just be … buying only as much as I can carry in my two hands? How is that practical?? It isn’t, and I would say use the totes. If it helps at all, the bad actor here is probably not so much you as it is The Brands.
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