The functional unit of this present study is the, “number of
shopping bags used for grocery shopping per year by an average
Chinese/Indian/HK resident”. For the territories considered for this
study, we assume that plastic and paper bags are comparable and
they are equivalent to each other in their functional front. When it
comes to non-woven and woven bags, we assume that 1 nonwoven
and 2 woven cotton bags will replace 100 single use plastic
and paper bags. Further, our above said assumptions can be validated
from the relevant literature also