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Attachment D: Text responses from consumer plastic bag ban survey I use the bags for my garbage. I don't see how buying plastic bags for my garbage will be an improvement. Will purchased bags be better for the environment? Is this yet another cost that I will have to bear? What is the alternative for disposing of trash? The trash carriers prefer that trash be bagged and it does cut down on accidental litter. I think everyone should be required to reuse the stre bags for their trash! I think that there should still be a choice whether someone uses a one-time use bag or reusable bag. One-time use bags can be recycled anyway and if there were more places to recycle them, a lot more people would and it wouldn't be an issue anymore. I don't think there has been a plastic bag that I haven't recycled in quite a while. I think that it is hard to always remember to bring you're own bag from the car or home. People are forgetful at times and always will be. Charging people for a paper bag when they don't remember to bring their own is a bad idea. I have always been pro-choice so to speak. I would love to see us rid our town of these nasty bags! I use the plastic bags for trash cans and other things so I think we should come up with other viable uses for them instead of banning them. Plastic bans should be banned and paper should have a fee--suggest 10c. Driving users to paper from plastic is a bad idea--remember, the GHG impact comes from the production, and in production, paper bags actually have a slightly higher impact. However, they don't have the end of life problems of blowing about and causing other problems. Make reuse the norm, and charge people who prefer the convenience of a disposable bag. I shop a lot in eugen and I may have to go elcewere. the goal is worthy but the means should be education NOT government regulation....we have too many regulations now....city government has more important issues and problems to address I would be happy to shop in Springfield where I won't have to wonder where reusable bags have been before they were placed on a grocery check-out counter. Maybe we could just let the dogs into the grocery store. Filthy proposition you are proposing. Just filthy. Paper bags cause a lot of damage to the environment, furthermore, while polyethylene is a by- product, paper is not. The process of making a paper bag is more damaging: http://www.treehugger.com/culture/paper-bags-or-plastic-bags-everything-you-need-to- know/page5.html Finally, many heavier duty reusable bags are imported from Chinese manufacturers. Does recycling and reusing bags help? Yes, if they are also washable and thus hygienic, and the person has enough and brings them any time to Safeway when they have a family of four to feed... Should the city police this given the large number of costs and benefits? Rather, maybe the city should just educate the shopper of the different choices and let the people decide. I'm against this ban. Our government doesn't need to tell us which type of bag we can or can't use. There are more important issues to deal with in Eugene than plastic bags such as bringing more jobs to the area, public safety, and schools. please keep bags available for produce and meets to help reduce contamination