I am of the opinion that paper bags are far superior to the plastic shite....this is one of the few things the moonbats in Massachusetts (where I was raised) have right...the paper mills in Maine have been falling/closing and destroying towns and lives...paper products of any type need to be pushed . They degrade unlike the OIL BASED plastic bags....the pellets that are melted at the beginning of the process are from OIL...save the OIL for gasoline and all the other beneficial needs . Just my opinion.
Two memes wrong with this statement....1) with exposure to sunlight, plastic bags degrade just fine, and 2) plastic bags are NOT "oil based", they are made using natural gas.
Plastics do NOT decompose in landfills, but then neither does paper.
According to the article, plastic bags are made from natural gas. By the way, natural gas is used to manufacture the edible collagen casings for wieners and sausage.