Michael Over the years, I've often talked about my obsession with shopping at my favorite supermarket, "Costco." However, only long-time regular readers with an elephant's memory would know that six and a half years ago, one of my first actions in San Francisco was buying a 500-pack of trash bags there (Rundbrief 12/1996). Click the link and look at the photo: In front of the Sharp TV set, which was also newly purchased at the time and has long since stopped working, and to the left of the Corona beer crate, which lasted even shorter, you can see a pack of 500 garbage bags from the company Kirkland. Why am I writing this? A few days ago, we used the last one. However, this is not because we produced extremely little waste, but rather because in the USA, you always get inundated with plastic bags at the supermarket, which you then use for trash, so you hardly use any garbage bags you bought yourself. Now I'm faced with the question: Should I buy another 500-pack, will we stay another 6.5 years?

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