>A 2018 Danish Environmental Protection Agency report suggested that a cotton bag should be used at least 7,100 times to offset its environment impact when compared to a classic supermarket plastic bag that's reused once as a trash bag and then incinerated. (If that cotton is organic, the figure is an eye-popping 20,000 times, with the report assuming a lower yield but the same input of raw materials.)

Hey if you've been using the same bag for a shopping trip every day, for all that time and never replaced it or got another, and it wasn't organic, you're almost halfway to having a smaller environmental impact than just using single use plastic bags all that time.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/13/world/cotton-tote-vs-plastic-...