{"id":81410,"date":"2018-08-06T09:22:54","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T16:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/heres-how-many-times-you-actually-need-to-reuse-your-shopping-bags"},"modified":"2018-08-10T07:14:12","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T14:14:12","slug":"heres-how-many-times-you-actually-need-to-reuse-your-shopping-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/heres-how-many-times-you-actually-need-to-reuse-your-shopping-bags","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s how many times you actually need to reuse your shopping bags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/heres-how-many-times-you-actually-need-to-reuse-your-shopping-bags.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The plastic bag ban by the major supermarkets (and Coles\u2019 pivot away from its ban after backlash, then pivot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/business\/companies\/coles-flips-again-on-plastic-bag-ban-puts-end-date-on-freebies-20180802-p4zv13.html\"><i>back<\/i> to the ban after a backlash to the backlash<\/a>) has left plenty of people scratching their heads.<\/p>\n<p>What are the best replacements for single-use plastic bags? Given that <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/reusable+bags\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">reusable bags<\/a> are much sturdier, how many times must we use them to compensate for their larger environmental impact?<\/p>\n<p>The simple answer is that there is no simple answer. However, a kind of research called \u201clife cycle assessment\u201d can help us work out the impact of common types of reusable bags.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-08-reuse-bags.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;08-reuse-bags.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plastic bag ban by the major supermarkets (and Coles\u2019 pivot away from its ban after backlash, then pivot back to the ban after a backlash to the backlash) has left plenty of people scratching their heads. What are the best replacements for single-use plastic bags? Given that reusable bags are much sturdier, how many [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81585,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81410\/revisions\/81585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}