It is only a small step toward making the city and hopefully a better place, but it is a step.

Reduce our waste!

We should be leading on this issue.

Because I would like to see this happen all over the world and especially in MA. A ban in NYC would be a great first step. Plastic bags are evil.

YES! ban the bags, its ridiculous how they are used momentarily, and last and last….

Ban the bag, New York City —- send a powerful signal that your great city is an environmental leader.

I use them for hours or minutes and they stay around for centuries!! That’s enough of a real reason for me.

For a week I watched a baby hawk struggle with a plastic bag stuck around his leg. ENOUGH!

I am sick and tired of seeing D’Agostino plastic bags in the trees on 3rd Avenue and 35th Street. My other reasons are obvious. I never take plastic bags.

If we don’t stop now, these plastic bags will smother our grandchildren’s planet.

In this day and age plastic bags are no longer useful there are many better eco friendly alternatives. The world is littered with plastic bags!!!!!!

I, too, watched that baby hawk struggle with a plastic bag wrapped around its leg. It was heartbreaking and I will never look at a plastic bag the same way again.

Paper bags are ruining our environment, and the problem is easily solved. We are way behind the curb. New York City should be a leader, not a follower.

This is a small thing that we can all do to help reduce plastic litter. We can do it.

Fledgling RT Hawk at Bobst Library in Washington Square Park ensnared by bag.

Because it’s the right thing to do.

I’m tired of constantly begging cashiers to NOT give me plastic bags.

Plastic waste in the oceans kills 1.5 marine animals every year. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is growing. People don’t need to put the one item they bought at the deli into a plastic bag. They are overused and incredibly wasteful.

As a native New Yorker, now living in Michigan, I am painfully aware of the wildlife issues that these bags pose. Not to mention the unsightly bags fluttering all over tree’s and in the streets. It’s time we found another alternative.

All plastic bags need to be banned! We need to protect our wildlife in the city and on the water, they are what makes the city so amazing and special!!

NYC can be the ground-swell to rid the nation of this menace. I love NYC

It is so easy and it has important impact

We must care about our environment for both ourselves and those who come after us.

“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” - Greek Proverb