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by zaarn 2175 days ago
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.