Re: Letter to the editor, Time for Oakville to ban disposable plastic bags, Oakville Beaver, Friday, May 2.
 
I suppose one of the most important parts to this debate that has been consistently ignored is the "disposable" income aspect of it.

The letter writer seemed to have stopped short with the 3 R's at reduce and decided to ignore the reuse and recycle bits of that mantra.

Here is how my family and many more families "reuse" and "recycle" these plastic bags in a common sense manner.

•  Garbage bags for our kitchen, basement and washrooms bins.
   
•  Lunch bags for work.  Brown bagging is a term lost in the past.  Most cannot afford to buy lunch everyday.
   
•  Storage for toys.
•  Storage for older clothes that can be separated by size and age when putting them away. 

    • Storage for smaller items in your garage or shed.

If these bags are "banned" in such a fashion, the only difference will be in most having to purchase other bags from the same grocery stores and eventually ending up in the same garbage dumps.  I am sure the "big plastic" industries would not mind that one bit. 
 
Joe Morgante