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Attachment D: Text responses from consumer plastic bag ban survey I use plastic grocery (etc.) bags for garbage, doggy poo, carrying fresh stuff to the gym and wet stuff, home, etc. Ban 'em and I'll have to buy 'em. What gain then unless the law bans the sale of plastic bags, too? If I spend my limited income there, I can't spend it on more luxurious things. I can't understand how a Eugene bag goes down the river over a hundred miles and winds up in the ocean. ??? And unless the coastal towns have a ban, what's the point of Eugene doing it for our bags winding up in the ocean? This is a City Council "feel good" thing that will inconvenience me and a lot of other people for nothing. I think paper bags would be a reasonable alternative to plastic for groceries and other retail establishments. I think department & big box stores should make bag recycling easy, i.e., drop off at store or mall. Many of our plastic bags that get recycled come from those sources. Let's get rid of plastic bags! Please add a $0.05 per plastic bag deposit at the time of checkout. Deposit is returned when bag returned or reused. Make bags more appealing by demonstrating that their not just for groceries...day trips, sleep overs, weekend trips, baby crap, etc Point out one is shaped like a remote control & I bet most men will enjoy carrying it! I try to keep reusable bags with me and when i forget I sometimes don't use a bag or I use the paper option. please support ban on plastics I do not want the ban on plastic bags. This is a waste of city dollars. People can decide what they would like to do without the city forcing these rules. I will be thrilled to be forced to remember my reusable bags, and to stop dealing with plastic bags. Good luck. I am so hoping this goes through. I get all the plastic bags I could ever need (and then some) by finding them blowing in the wind. So wasteful. I am disabled and not being able to have bags provided by the store would greatly reduce my quality of life! Resued shopping bags become gross with juices from packages of raw chicken and other meats. They leak into the bottom and the bags stink. I know, I've tried. Paper bags are impossible too. They leak and I can't carry them easily on the bus. Why not just promote the re-use as trash bags, saving people from buying new one-use bags? Plastic bags are not single use bags. I don't know of anyone who uses plastic bags just once. They are always used multiple times for things such as trash bag liners, donation items carriers, in dog parks, for use in your car, to hold and store things at home and work, etc. Also, no one has ever gotten sick by carrying groceries home in a plastic bag, plenty have gotten sick by using "reusable" cloth bags. if you do away with plastic bags how are people(especially disabled and elderly) going to get their groceries home that don't have a car or drive? their are a lot of us. this will make it difficult if not impossible for a lot of people. Plastic bags for groceries are much easier to carry,as I can put two or three on my arm. Paper bags get wet in the rain. Cloth bags carry germs. I think we should go back to paper but that the merchants should make that happen, not a new law or regulation. There are many uses for plastic bags. I would miss them if they were no longer in food stores, but I could always purchase some if needed.