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Attachment D: Text responses from consumer plastic bag ban survey The use of plastic bags should be stopped wherever possible. There are much better options to their use. Minor adjustments to one's habits are all that is necessary. Easy adjustments; it took me awhile to bringing my own bags - but eventually it becomes habit. thanks for pursuing this! The free market a LIBERTY works! I resuse my plastic bags all around my home. I would have to purchase bags to replace the ones I am getting with my groceries. Just by simple obervation, you DON'T see abandoned plastic bags in the streets. This proposed ban is driven by mis-information rather than logic. as ever, your answer selections are limited, so then are the more detailed responses that should be necessary to create the information you are allegedly looking for to properly inform your client (the city) for making decisions like this. Please keep the option on plastic bags. We're often in PDX and to get a brown paper bag is often too big for what we've bought. I use my plastic bags for trash - if they weren't available, I have to buy trash bags that really would have only one use. And what do you do when you buy meat? Don't ban plastic bags..... I remember back in the 80's they wanted to to stop using paper bags because they were a byproduct of trees. It just seems like when there is a knee jerk reaction to something you want to band it. Find an easier way to recycle these plastic bags so we can keep reusing them. It's become a habit to take our own bags to the grocery. Now that we are used to it, it is easy. We still get some plastic bags at other kinds of retail, but it's much less. I support banning them at groceries. It is an easy transition and good for the planet. Plastic bags are great, there always clean when you get them when shopping, unlike the cloth material bags they get nasty unless you wash them after everytime you go shopping. And I use plastic bags for others things afterwards such as cleaning out the cat-litter box, there great for that!! It is a gross over reach of City government to determine the types of consumables that its citizens are aloud to use. What will be next? I do however believe that it is the job of Eugene citizens to continue to inform others as to the benefits of reusable and paper bags. At that point the market will decide the fate of the plastic bag, as it should be. Plastic bags should be eliminated entirely. Please ban! I prefer paper bags, but where I shop the most (walmart), I never remember to ask for them. Other places I shop that ask me which I prefer at the checkout, I always ask for paper. If bags are banned and lane Apex and Sanapac costs for labor go down 40%. Willwe see our garbagebill go down? Eugene is broke! Doesn't the City Council have something better to do than this???? Many of my neighbors also use these bags for dog pet waste Should be a personnel and business choice and government should stay out of it. I store and use them for other recycling items / cans / plastic containers / cardboard rolls - boxes etc. then put the whole thing in recycle bin. Never just the bags so they don't blow away. I wish the younger generation was more careful. I am AGAINST banning single use bags for any reasons. They are very handy for other things and it's not the government's business, in this case. I liken this effort to what the Mayor of New York City is proposing: Banning large sized soft drinks. I certainly favor recycling facilities for them. CHARGE A 25-cent FEE for each new bag you furnish. People will start remembering their bags. garbage disposal companys should recycle the plastic bags.