Are paper bags really worth it?

[LunchBreaker]

Many paper bags have plastic handles. The amount of plastic used is still much less than a plastic bag, but the bags are truly single use, and actually even less if it rains. A fully plastic bag can be used many times, so what is the ratio of plastic by volume to total uses?

[Yankel The Goat]

if you call them bags they rip before you can pick them up

[Cranberry]

Why is their ripping contingent on their being called bags?

[virtuosointraining]

Yankel the Goat meant (I'm assuming) "If you can even call them bags."

[Yankel The Goat]

They actually started with these new cheap fabric bags that they also only charge like five cents for, but the fabric ones are actually reusable, and they don't rip:) I actually heard of a certain store that gives them for free like regular shopping bags used to be like.