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Attachment D: Text responses from consumer plastic bag ban survey I really appreciate the survey! I am in support of banning single-use plastic bags. I totally support a ban on plastic bags How about unintended consequences? Will people have to buy trash can liners? Pet waste pickup bags? Bags to contain recyclable paper and other items? Banning the bags and imposing a 5-cent fee for paper feels like just another government gouge at the pocketbook. I'm allergic to paper bags, so I don't want to be forced to use them. I reuse the plastic bags to line my small trash cans. If you ban the plastic bags in the stores, you won't be saving plastic bags from the landfills. People like me will be forced to buy small plastic bags for the small trash cans. Guess where those bags will end up? If you guessed the landfills, you guessed right. I can't afford to buy extra trash bags. I can't afford to buy extra allergy medicine, or poison ivy medicine for the rash that the paper bags cause. If I'm forced to use paper bags, I will encourage everyone like me to send the bill to the decision maker's for the small trash bags, allergy medicine, and poison ivy medicine that they will have to buy on a regular basis. Start making the plastic bags out of recycled plastic, instead of them being a single use bag. I have lived in Eugene only a few years, having lived elsewhere in places much less willing to consider environmental sustainability when making policy decisions. I appreciate that the citizens and leaders of Eugene look at the long-term when making policy. I hope Eugene joins this movement to ban single-use plastic bags sooner rather than later. I hope you ban them! Out-of-state interests should not be allowed to influence this decision. I really encourage you to follow other cities in Oregon in banning plastic bags. The health of our oceans and environments is far more important than convenience for humans. I am for stopping use of plastic bags but I am not prepared to pay for paper bags when they are free now. Fewer plastic bags in our world would be great! It is not the bag so much as it's the lazy persons. More Ed.about our responsibilty to be smart about recyling is needed. Ban plastic bags! They are a complete waste of energy I use all of the disposable plastic bags I get from stores, including produce bags and shopping bags, as bags for produce from my garden, garbage bags, and for disposing dog poop. If plastic shopping bags are banned, I would most likely buy plastic bags to use in place of the bags I get from stores, and they would still end up in the trash when I'm done. I am open to learning other ways of storing garden produce and disposing of dog waste so that I wouldn't have to buy plastic bags and reduce my waste if someone could provide me with practical alternatives. Composting dog poop on my property is not a practical alternative for me. Getting rid of single use carry out grocery bags is a no brainer. The cost is money as pollution, damage equipment and are an eyesore in the environment that affects ecosystems. I would like the option of using plastic bags when purchasing items that might spill or leak, such as bleach and meat. I support reducing the use of plastic bags, but I think we have too many 'bans' Please ban single use plastic bags!!!! Please please please!!!