That looks terrible, but cotton or at least non-plastic bags have been around for a long time, right? Would bag production always have been that bad? It feels

That looks terrible, but cotton or at least non-plastic bags have been around for a long time, right? Would bag production always have been that bad? It feels like this is tying the manufacturing process to the materials for manufacturing. You can't make a plastic bag without plastic production, but I feel like you can make a non-plastic bag without plastic production and at lot of other modern industrial processes and chemicals.