[dogma1138]

Because there is a study showing that some bags needs to be reused 50,000 times, degradable plastic bags which are then reused as rubbish bags or put into recycling are a better option than the trendy cloth bags that have a pretty substantial environmental impact and not the beneficial kind.

I don’t know about you but even if a bag lasts for years I don’t think it will be reused more than 1000 times.

[zaarn]

It's not 50000 times. It's 131 times. Paper bags 3 times.

You can use a cloth bag 131 times easily.

https://stanfordmag.org/contents/paper-plastic-or-reusable

If like you assume the bag will not be used more than 1000 times, it beats it's target to be better than plastic bags by a factor of 10.