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Attachment D: Text responses from consumer plastic bag ban survey I am required to bag my trash in plastic bags. I use plastic grocery bags for trash bags. If the City eliminates plastic grocery bags I will just be required to purchase plastic bags for trash, which will only add to my cost while not doing anything to eliminate plastic trash bags in the land fill. I think more municipal funding needs to be directed towards the efforts of the Waste Prevention and Green Building Program. I also support a fee for paper bags to help compensate the retailers which can be in money form or a chit to use for a local worthy organization like Capella used to do. Ban single use plastic bags, there is NO use of them. I will support retailers who do away with these bags! The new woven canvas bags made out of plastic (recycled plastic?) do last longer but are they good for the environment? I do not know. I try to avoid them. Thanks for asking. Go for it! Ban plastic bags. I reused most all plastic bags for something else. I like how Market of Choice gives you a 5cent credit for you own bag. Ban plastic bags! Grocery stores should make reusable bags more prominent (such as at Market of Choice). Single-use items made from nearly indestructible materials should be illegal. I feel strongly that ALL single use bags should be banned! Do NOT exempt Bi-Mart and any other retailers, as was done in Portland for whatever reason. Their bags end up blowing around the streets and eventually end up in the ocean, too. Its about time our city is thinking of taking a great step like this. Lets add a styrofoam ban as well. Please, please... set the pace for other cities and ban the use of plastic bags! plastic is confusing when knowing what you can recycle. please get rid of them! We don't want them! Thank you! I would like to see plastic bags banned everywhere. Single use plastic and paper bags need to be banned without exception. Charge for reuseables at the checkout stand. Then people will treat them as such. We use the single use bags for garbage and for picking up dog droppings. We re-use them all. Although we do not get many as we usually use our own bags I tend to use paper bags from the store the most, but I do have a set of reusables I use. I think I'm just lazy and accustomed to what the stores offer. The more the stores remind me to bring my own bag (like some have signs in the parking lot) -- the better. Also, discounts for using your own bags, etc., are also helpful. In many cases, a paper bag does the equivalent job without using plastic . . . let's save our plastic resources for the things that really matter: medical usage, etc. would be more than willing to pay 5cent charge per bag to use paper and do away with plastic all together. plastic is a material that should NEVER have been used for ANY short-useable life products, and the flexible plastics are an abomination on the planet due to added chemicals such as pthalates that make them flexible I've lived in Eugene since 1955. I am proud of my city's forward thinking policies and progressive attitude in many areas, and I think banning one use plastic bags is a great idea. One thing our city is doing that is kind of shameful is the often excessive harassment of our homeless by the police department. Yes, I know that's off topic, but I just had to throw it in! Despite the fact that I reuse the bags on the occasions that I need to take them, I would prefer to have them banned. There's no excuse for not using them.