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Attachment D: Text responses from consumer plastic bag ban survey As a person who collects and turns in many, many redeemable deposits the PLASTIC BAG is the ONLY BAG that is literally water-proof and doesnt get heavier and break-down during the 6-8 wet months of the year..... I do this for extra money and to help Oregon stay greener and cleaner than most other states in our great nation! However, please give some good consideration to the homeless and disenfranchised when considering what the ban might mean to them as well. Have a good day! Jah Bless!!!!! I would be forced to purchase more expensive and durable [not a good thing in the dump] bags if I could not reuse the store bags for my home trash. Don't ban any kind of bag. Just charge for them, and make recycling easy, and have cloth bags available. IT'S TOTALLY UNFAIR TO NOT LET PEOPLE HAVE PLASTIC BAGS! THEY ARE USEFUL IN SOME CASES. I do most of my grocery shopping in Eugene. I have been noticing that my trash can is often mostly filled with non-recyclable plastic because there is nowhere else for it. We should look at this bag ban as a positive step toward a more mature culture. Locally made cloth bags are COOL!! Plastic bags are sometimes litter the landscape and it looks ugly. I highly encourage the use of bringing one's own bags to shop with and have the stores reward people. I hope Eugene will ban plastic bags. I do not like the fact that the City or anyone has the right to tell me whether I can or cannot use plastic bags. When I first moved here in 1978, the City was upset that we were using paper bags. It was using up our forests. Now everyone wants everything organic. Unless you can come up with a natural fabric that will wash and be cost effective, we will be replacing the plastic bags with just another product made from oil bi-products. The only good thing from interfering with what we have, will be that maybe the logging companies will again be a thriving force in our economy. Then you wouldn't have to worry about tax revenue. 20 years ago, we went to plastic bags "to save the forest" Now you want to change again, it is none of your business of what I choose to use. I think it is utterly rediculous that you want to do away with plastic bags at stores. There are many uses for them. I am tired of government trying to micromanage my life. This is why people distrust and resent government. Can't you find something useful to do with your time?????????? I rely on store provided plastic bags to use as garbage bags and to scoop my cat litter into. They save me having to buy other plastic bags that would also go into landfills and cost me more money. I use them also to carry books and other items/supplies in. I never just throw a plastic bag away, I always reuse them, often many times. I would not want to see plastic bags banned. the main reason we like plastic is that you can carry 4-5 bags or more at a time, paper you can only carry two at most and if you are handicapped none. Plastic bags are an environmental hazard. Action would be appreciated to reduce the mindless use of them. I also use our bags for our small garbage cans and in our car when we travel. I think for those of us who recycle anyway this will make us spend more money on plastic bags we would then purchase. Rather than ban i think that imposing usage fees that would cover the actual city costs of repairing average damage of bag use would have better outcome I have been washing and reusing plastic bags foro 15 years. I'm sure some of the bags I have used for 5 years. It would be pretty sweet if Eugene went plastic-bag free. I support it 100%. a ban is NOT the answer. Charge a 10 cent fee per bag, with half going to the retailer, and the other half to support additional recycling options. Bans only create resentment. Create an environment that encourages the behavior you want to see. A ban is NOT the answer.