What are the advantages of cloth bags over plastic bags during shopping?

Plastic bags are the type of non-biodegradable wastes which pollutes the environment. Accumulation and burning or destruction of such non-biodegradable waste release harmful gases in the environment, making it unclean and unhygienic for every organism. 

Even if animals like cows consume polythene bags together with vegetable wastes, it can choke their wind pipe or food pipe and can lead to death.

Paper bags should be used for shopping because they are biodegradable whereas plastic bags are non-biodegradable.