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Attachment D: Text responses from consumer plastic bag ban survey I don't want the eco-freaks and tree-huggers telling me what options I have and what to do. When I buy groceries, the number of bags I need varies. Charging me to buy bags is not only inconvenient, it is a financial strain on tight budgets. I've never had a wet plastic bag break (and damn few tear), but I've sure had a lot of paper bags tear, wet or dry. For the merchant to provide free sacks is the price of doing business. Support the ban, please stop using plastic bags Plastic bags are not a major issue as other plastics that are in use and discarded. before any ban, there needs to be solid, verafiable data showing how plastic bags from Eugene are impacting the enviorment in such a negitive way compared to other plastics. Remember, we went to plastic bags due to teh cry that paper bags were causing too many tress to be cut down. We hope you do NOT ban them. Too many "bans" on things instead of education and making reuse/recycle a desirable thing to do. There's even money in it. No more plastic bags! It is time for people to find alternatives, or pay for each bag if they want to continue to use them. I would like to see a ban on plastic bags. THANKS FOR YOUR EFFORTS in this regard. I support the plastic bag ban in Eugene 100%. recycling everything needs to be easy or people won't do it. but i'm sorry, it is NOT hard to remember to take your own bag, or to ask for a paper bag. the plastic waste is appalling. please pass this ban!!! get rid of plastic bags, they're evil. I can't state how strongly I feel about the need to ban plastic bags. Of course, I believe EmX should be extended out West 11th, too. Please let me use single-use plastic bags !!!!!!!!!!!! Please do ban them. The life of a bag is horrifying. We will change when we find it hard to keep up the old ways but most people won't change until something breaks their pattern. I support the ban on single-use plastic bags. Thanks. I agree that we need to recycle our bags and try and remember our reusable bags, but I believe we should still have the option to use plastic bags. Personally I think this is a stupid idea again by the city of Eugene. What about all of the stores like Goodwill and all of the other stores like that. If it were to happen why not just the large store's like Freddy's or Safeway, Albertson where the majority of shoppers shop. If this becomes a law it would really hurt a lot of business just trying to survive, and the idea of charging for the paper bags is probably the craziest idea yet. Before the plastic bags we used paper bags and the cost was always added to the cost of the merchandise and nobody complained. reusing your own bags get messy and dirty and it takes the retailer longer to bag all the different types of bags. The cloth one's don't standup and are hard to fill with groceries. We have recycling for plastics and should use that. This way we have sanitary bags all the time and the retailer handle sanitary bags not dirty personal bags. I feel it is a pain for them and for us to have to wait while they figure out how to load each different bag a consumer brings in. I have seen this in San Jose, CA Looks like a big pain and if you forget your bags you have to buy them anyway. Just charge a couple cents more and call it good. I believe and single use bags, both paper and plastic, should be banned.