Way to ignore the facts. Neither paper nor plastic recycles well, paper bags are larger and require more shipments to get the same number of bags to the stores, and paper bags are heavier requiring more fuel be burned in a shipment. Exactly HOW is paper better? The only advantage it has is that when people disgard of it improperly it's not as mobile and won't go flying all over the place, but that entirely revolves around people littering so if people would just stop doing that paper's one "advantage" would go away.
Paper is still better. Always has always will be. My opinion ... you have yours.