went shopping at Aldi where they reduce their impact on the environment by using cloth bags you bring from home. forgot the bags. now my carbon footprint reduction is canceled because I gotta drive home and get the bags.

sooo - you couldn't have just bought some new bags, which would've been cheaper by lots than the extra fuel used, giving you a larger pool of bags which you can store in different locations to increase the chance of you having at least one set available when shopping?

(asking for a friend)

Just use paper.

They're actually recycled and can be used for lots of other purposes. For example, I use my spare bags to light the natural gas burn valve on my oil derricks.

Plastic bags produced from recycled plastic are not that bad if you live somewhere where plastic bags are actually recycled. You can reuse them dozens of times and recycle them afterwards. Kinda hard to beat when it works, but it can go all wrong if the infrastructure doesn't exist.

Environmentally friendly bags are a scam.

@electrineer True. I always used my plastic bags until they broke down

After that I used for trash

Carbon footprint and supermarket / Aldi.

Seriously?

@tosensei The bags they had for sale were tiny and I’m buying for a household of 6 on a severely restricted unemployed budget during high inflation. I would have had to buy about 20 tiny bags vs. go home and get 4 bigger bags.

My rant was actually tongue in cheek because of the whole “carbon footprint reduction” scam. No amount of robbing carbon Peter to pay zero-carbon Paul is ever going to be effective simply due to the fact that, ultimately, WE are the final carbon the elites seek to eliminate with their schemes. We poor plebeians literally exhale carbon dioxide and fart methane and in massive quantities globally. First it’s these damn bags but last it’ll be everyone getting on the trains to go take showers somewhere.

@iiii They sure are! It would be nice if Aldi at least had limited quantities of normal plastic bags as an option for forgetful people or infrequent customers who don’t know how it all works. Imagine being a first time clueless Aldi shopper and getting to the checkout with a cart full of melting groceries only to be told you need to buy all these reusable bags. It’s like a giant “fuck you” on the customer service front. Just give people a quick orientation, the benefit of the doubt, and some normal plastic bags and let them go about their day. Otherwise they’ll remember a bad experience worse than the good one and never come back.

@stackodev " WE are the final carbon the elites seek to eliminate with their schemes" - dude. seek a therapist.

@stackodev you ok, dood?

@tosensei I did. He agreed with me. Got any other life advice?

@stackodev seek a better therapist that doesn't need a therapist himself.

@tosensei do those exist?

@tosensei I will. But first I’ll need you to post an image of your degrees and certifications in psychology and psychiatry.