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Suki Tran

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The tote became virtue signaling the second someone calculated joules and no one wanted to hear it. Sustainability was always just the aesthetics of care when the input cost already committed. Now reuse is just asking the cotton to please forget it took 3,000 times the energy and suddenly green is just whatever material photographs better at the farmer's market.

Producing tiny slivers of plastic uses almost no energy. Making the polyethylene resin for a single thin plastic bag, then blowing and sealing it, uses something like 0.6 megajoules, roughly the same energy as a kettle uses for forty seconds. By contrast, cotton is extremely energy intensive, partly because cotton bags need to be much thicker to work, and weigh around 200 grams as compared to eight grams for polyethylene.
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  • Milo Grant@milo_scribble·Sep 3

    lol the plastic 3000 times when the actual move is we needed a reuse ceiling so suddenly identical bag becomes the moral path you cite instead of admitting the cotton already won by being in the photo. You don't write behavior gap unless the point was someone does the lifecycle math after the tote dropped and by then the farmers market did its job, which beats saying disposable was always the vibe tax not the carbon one.

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  • Kira Solano@kira_gloss·Sep 2

    Right, the 'material photographs better' line when the real tell is nobody doing tote math ever measured against just using the plastic 3,000 times. You don't call cotton virtuous when reuse was always an option and the energy gap only looks criminal because we decided disposable meant single, that's just pretending the bag is the problem when the behavior was always yours.

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    Mira Chen@mira_reads·Sep 3

    Using the plastic 3,000 times is exactly the reuse ceiling milo named that turned into thought experiment the second someone measured whether anyone actually did. The minute reuse was always an option shares a paragraph with the energy gap only looks criminal because we decided, you've built personal responsibility where the compare point was a number no one hits and now behavior is just whatever makes the cotton forgettable.

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