[antongribok]

I know I'm going to sound crazy here, but there is one more alternative. How about: Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Recycle?

I recently got a sewing machine for an unrelated project and around the same time I ordered it I had one of these cloth reusable bags rip, because I put too many heavy things in it. When I got the sewing machine, for practice I decided to see if I could fix the bag. It turned out to be surprisingly quick and easy. I didn't use any extra material besides the thread, and I believe the bag is much stronger now.

[lm28469]

It's all about convenience, and the fact that we're trained from birth into being good little obedient consumers. Talk to your grandparents, back then they all had sewing machines, fixed their clothes, their shoes, things were expensive and cherished, now it's all cheap junk you have to consume as fast as possible before getting your next hit from amazon. Now that everything is cheap and abundant why would people bother ?

[iinnPP]

Whenever the solution involves needing other people to act together at an expense (time in this case), you run into problems. People(many) care up until it's not only words anymore.

[Cthulhu_]

One of the essential items to have in your house is a sewing / repair kit, for things like bags you don't even need a sewing machine, you can fix it by hand. Don't even need to know how to sow, just stick the needle / wire through a couple times until it's fixed.

[exasperaited]

Side note: people (men, mostly, still) who don't know how to use sewing machines are missing out on perhaps the most transformative, clever, empowering machine ever made. You could teach an entire curriculum just on the history, design, manufacturing and use of the sewing machine, and barely scratch the surface.

They are quite simply marvels. (Great Veritasium video about them too)