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Attachment D: Text responses from consumer plastic bag ban survey I reuse these bags, which is just as legitimate as recycling! If I don't have these bags to use for what I reuse them for, then I will still be putting a bag in the landfill, one that I have to purchase, but either way the bag is going into the landfill. I am concerned that low income people can't afford reusable bags. They will end up at the store without a reusable bag, and have to pay for paper if you ban these bags. Thank you for the opportunity to express my opinions and concerns. With all of the educational issues, this is what taxpayers are spending thier money on, this what we are wasting our time dealing with when we could be spending money on educating our youth? What moron is thinking about getting rid of these? I hope they don't discontinue the plastic bags. I reuse them for my cat litter disposal. I don't think the city council should be telling us or business owners what bags to use in their business. Will they be telling us and businesses what size soda they can sell next? While I could recite so many things that "plastic bags are used for, It still comes down to the question "are we better off with them, or without them" There are good arguments for both "cases" Time to get rid of plastic bags! Even though I frequently use plastic bags, I feel a great shame in doing so, like sinning. Plastic bags are the devil. Ban them, let us all be more aware of the effects of their use - we will all get used to using our reusable bags!! I hope single-use plastic bags will be banned. They litter, they harm wildlife, they waste resources. Reusable bags are cheap. We just need to change our habits. It will save us time, money, and resources in the long run. Even if you simply charge people for their grocery bags, it would make a huge difference. The people who don't drive need the bags to carry larger amount of food home, and save repeated trips to the store, and carrying a fixed number of reusable bags can restrict the amount one can buy in one trip. And it can get bulky trying to carry around a lot of canvas bags on foot, or a bike. Even if one washes their bags all the time, others may not, so still have the the contamination issue like the restaurants would have. Also, this additional washing uses more resources ( water and electricity) . Many people reuse them for garbage disposal, ( I do ), instead of buying those heavy plastic trash bags, that still end up in the land fill. Paper bag production cuts down trees, and put a lot of pollution in the air, both at the factory, and the trucking weight. The is all ready recycling available for the plastic bags, so this should be focused, and improved on, rather than bans. People need leadership to change habits like using plastic bags. Many of us have been moving in this direction for decades now. It's time to insist we figure out how to get our groceries home without adding to the landfill. Thank you for seriously considering a ban on plastic bags. Banning such bags is the responsible thing to do, not only for our landfills but for the energy and resources it takes to manufacture and transport them in the first place. People are resourceful; we can all come up with ways to live and function without plastic bags! (I will be burying chinchilla bedding rather than stuffing it into plastic bags as the bedding is biodegradable and non-toxic.)