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Attachment D: Text responses from consumer plastic bag ban survey If you prohibit stores from providing free plastic bags, then I will have to purchase bags for garbage disposal, wrapping of foodstuffs, etc. Or find somewhere to shop where there are not so many regulations. We mostly shop in Eugene Please help save the future. Place as big a ban as you can. I often reuse so-called single use bags a number of times, first for shopping or to keep air from greens in fridge, then for garbage (larger bags) or dog pickup. I would be purchasing and throwing out bags for the later 2 purposes if I could not reuse plastic shopping bags. I sometimes don't bring my own reusable bag from home in order to get some plastic bags to restock my pile. We reuse plastic bags to help contain our bathroom trash before putting the trash in a bigger can and recycling the bag, we use them for dirty baby clothes while on trips or out and about. It's also easier to carry the plastic bags versus paper bags when you have a child on one hip and 3 bags to carry. My reuse of plastic bags causes them to become unrecyclable. If I didn't have them to use I would have to purchase plastic bags. I kick myself when I forget to bring my own bags to the store....I really hate those plastic bags and I feel like most people are not good about at least trying to recycle them if they have them. I really don't see a reason for them....other cities have banned them...why can't we? They are not necessary when other, viable and easy options are also available.....paper and/or bringing in your own reuseables. People will adjust! We're good like that. :) I think there needs to be a bigger push for biodegradable or oxio-bioplastic bags. These bags breakdown faster than paper bags when exposed to the environment. I can't tell you how violently opposed I am to an ordinance prohibiting plastic bags. Our garbage service can encourage recycling, but government should not tell us what to do. This is over- reaching big time. I will vote you out. I think this is a great local solution to a worldwide problem that is impacting human and wildlife health and the oceans. This ordinance is important. I would really like to see plastic bags disappear/banned altogether because of the environmental impact they have had on this planet.