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mom-and-pop liquor store,” said Environmental Services Bureau Manager Jim Kuhl. “When we talked to The bottom line: The ban appears to be getting more people to use reusable shopping bags, Scafa said Hermes Jypsiere Bags. “In terms of waste reduction, which was the purpose of this ordinance, we believe it was effective,” she told councilors. Retailers also were surveyed about the ban, including whether they thought the minimum 5-cent charge for paper bags encouraged people to bring bags to the store. The 144 retailers who responded were evenly split on the answer to that question, Scafa said.

 The council took no action at its meeting, but the review gave north Eugene Councilors Mike Clark and George Poling a chance to criticize the fee. them about the law, they stopped using plastic bags.” Kuhl credited the successful transition to reusable-bag use to an extensive public education campaign.luded that MI6 spy Gareth Williams probably died alone in an accident but admitted there was no evidence to establish the circumstances of his death "beyond all reasonable doubt". The naked, decomposing body of Mr Williams, a codebreaker on secondment to MI6 from GCHQ, the signals intelligence agency, was found in a padlocked holdall in the bath of his flat in Pimlico, London, in August 2010. The new findings contradict the conclusions of a

 coroner who last year said he had “probably” died at the hands of another. But it was a case that confounded various expert “There was really no push-back on it,” Kuhl said of the ban that went into effect Aug. 1, 2011, for large retailers and five months later for smaller shops. “I believe the grocers and the retailers realize the public would like to see a Louis Vuitton suryareduction in plastic bags.” The City Council passed a ban in May 2011 despite concerns by some that the law would hurt jobs and limit consumer choice. Opponents also called a 10-cent fee charged for recyclable paper bags a “de facto regressive tax.” Environmental groups and council members saw value in reducing waste attributed to the bags, which th