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Attachment D: Text responses from consumer plastic bag ban survey While I am not a big fan of the plastic bags myself, I do use them both in grocery shopping and at home and on occasion and would miss their presence. For example, I prefer to bag my meat in them because I don't want meat juices leaked onto my other groceries. I think that educating people would be a more useful tool than legislation to ban them. I also disagree with charging for the paper bags if that is still on the table. We support the banning of plastic AND paper bags. Reusable canvass bags are all that is needed, even to replace ppaper bags retailers should be required to recycle the plastic wrapping used in their received goods. My husband and myself really feel that plastic bags should be banned. Thank you I just want to say FUCK YOU for wasting tax dollars and my time on this. the bags in question are marked with the universal recycling symbol for HDPE (#2) Why doesn't the Oregon garbage hauler recycler pickup take them as legally mandated -By Oregonlaw the hauler gets a discount on their "tipping fee" to pay for pickup and recycling all the marked plastic - not just milk jugs and newspaper and cardboard that can be sold at a profit - that's the problem! Let's ban all plastic bags in Eugene, we have done so on Maui! Let's move to paper! Plastic bags are devastating to wildlife and to our ocean health. In the end, that means devastating to us as well. We need to act for the future, not always the short term. We're all in this together. Leave plastic bags alone! This is VITAL to me. Government has no busines micro-managing personal choices. And I VOTE! I support a plastic bag ban 100%!! As it is, I'm really lazy about making sure I have my reusable bags with me, and I think there are a lot of people like me - a push in the right direction would be good for everyone. BAN THE BAG! I have used fabric bags, baskets and crates for 40 years. It is easy and no problem whatsoever. Taking a nice bag TO the grocery store is EASY. In parts of Europe they do not supply any bags at all. Most of us have too many plastic bags in our homes; hence the waste. For those who defend free bags because they want to use these free bags for trash I say buy some; they are cheap. Put a value on them and their prevalence will decline. Better to have fewer bags than too many.... The Bottle Bill put a value on bottles and cans.... This survey is not a real survey and use of the data to create law is unscientific and a waste of money. I would LOVE Eugene to ban plastic bags. They are too convenient, too harmful. If we can change this one thing, it would be really awesome. Lets be a city that other cities look up to for our environmental actions: rather than one that sees that it works for others so we should do it also. Step 1: use reusable bags Step 2: if I forget them, use plastic Step 3: if plastic bags are in good condition, reuse for cat box. If not, recylce at grocery store. There are other ways to clean the cat box, so I'm not reliant on the plastic bags. We need a 5 cent deposit on both paper and plastic bags. At all retailers, not just grocery stores. Target, Lowes, Taco Bell, etc. We don't need single use plastic bags. Most of us grew up without them, and got along just fine. They are wasteful and taxing on the environment. They just end up in the landfill or as litter on the streets.