Agree. I always use those bags at least twice. Cannot imagine how I ever got along without them. The world will have to cut down more trees to make paper bags. which doesn’t seem environmentally sound either. Or maybe we’ll end up weaving our own bags from local weeds as devolution continues.
/johnny
I have something called a "Bag Bag" It is a canvas bag that hangs over the door hinge. It is a storage bag for plastic bags, a small opening on the bottom so I can pull them out. Very convenient. I occasionally get paper bags, mainly to use them when I make french Fries. I never recycle paper bags.
They can grow genetically altered trees like row crops that can mature in <10 years, and customize them depending on whether you want to make lumber or woodpulp.
And those trees would love a chance to suck up some of that awful awful CO2 that’s supposedly killing the planet