Reusable. The question is: what cannot be reusable?

Most packaging materials in the sector of bags can be classified as reusable. Of course, a produce bag in which a paste or semi-liquid produce is placed, is unlikely to be reused, and will be most probably disposed once emptied. However, a multitude of bags, while not widely perceived as reusable, are in real life reused. In this aspect, a polymeric plastic bag used as bin-bag following its primary use, can be perceived as reusable. Polymeric bags marked and encouraged by retailers to be reused by consumers, many times return to the stores to be reused by consumers. Kids carry their ball to the playground on numerous occasions packed in a previously used grocery bag. Produce bags are reused as polybags for packing food or covering plates with left food. In fact, and in real life, only a very small portion of the so-called disposable bags are not reused.

However, there is an entire range of very advanced bags that is designed to be reused hundreds of times by the consumer, under very demanding circumstances. These are bags used to partly replace the disposable carrier checkout bags, manufactured from polymers or materials that last longer, and feature advanced tearing and mechanical properties, justifying their higher cost and reusability. No bag of this kind is of course everlasting, and the experience shows that it is disposed after 100-300 uses.  We offer a range that is covering the most demanding accounts, and our carefully designed catalogue features solutions applied and designed at the highest level globally. Materials used include PP-Woven, PP-Nonwoven, Jute, Juco, Nylon, Cotton, Recycled Rpet etc.

"A reusable shopping bag, sometimes called bag for life, is a type of shopping bag which can be reused many times: this is an alternative of single use (....) bags. It is often made from fabric such as canvas, woven synthetic fibers, or a thick plastic that is more durable than disposable plastic bags, allowing multiple use.

Reusable shopping bags are a kind of carrier bag, which are available for sale in supermarkets and apparel shops. Reusable shopping bags require more energy to produce than common plastic shopping bags. One reusable bag requires the same amount of energy as an estimated 28 traditional plastic shopping bags or eight paper bags. "If used once per week, four or five reusable bags will replace 520 plastic bags a year" according to Nick Sterling, research director at Natural Capitalism Solutions. A study commissioned by the United Kingdom Environment Agency in 2005 but never published found that the average cotton bag is used only 51 times before being thrown away."

Source: Wikipedia