Remember when paper bags were good? The ones we have now tear so easily. There's a reason for this noticable
decline in quality. Old bags
were made with long fiber paper. The source for this is old growth
trees. But the timber industry was allowed to plunder the forests;
there isn't that much left now. What remains is now devoted
to another purpose in high demand since the Covid era: soft paper. Tissue & toilet paper, e.g.
