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Attachment D: Text responses from consumer plastic bag ban survey People might recycle bags more often if curbside recycling were available, AND if the rules were better publicized. Which bags can be recycled and where, which ones can only go in the trash (e.g., vegetable bags, those brown potato bags, bags that come with clothing purchases, etc.)? I can never seem to get an answer to such questions. I recycle as much as possible at home and I want to help the environment by recycling plasict bags but I am an extremely busy mom of two young children and I work full time so I need an easy option such as being able to have plastic bags recycling picked up with my regular recycling curbside on garbage day. We use Sanipac and for a short time the offered this option but to my knowledge that was discontinued and is no longer an available option. (please refer to #9 below) More visibility/signage to indicate where to recycle I think there should be way more awareness about why plastic bags are bad. If stores are going to use them they should provide an explanation to customers about why they have to recycle them. I don't think they should be used. There are plenty of better options. It would be great if they could go in the co-mingle recycling containers. I wish that the recycling centers would take them and we could just add them with our co-mingle. I believe more people would be interested in recycling plastic bags if they didn't think they'd wind up in our oceans Perhaps through curbside recycling with lane county More places that accept them. Some kind of assurance that they are really being recycled. THey shoudl be everywhere a trash can is in retail or minucipal locations. Of course, recycling is better than throwing away, but single use plastic bags should be eliminated, not recycled. Clarity needed on what can be recycled. Really should run an awareness campaign on TV to spread the word. Safeway is the only place I know of that takes them. Like flourescent lightbulbs, it would be great to have many locations, and advertised, at which to drop them. I just think they should be banned. Places where they aren't yet banned should have more options for recycling. Including them in my curbside recycling would be easiest. More stores need to encourage recycling I use them for garbage instead of trash can liners. Paper bags are from a renewable source, plastic bags aren't. I think we should stop using them. Ban the use in our city. Don't know. possibly a seperate bin when they pickup our recycling curbside Ban plastic bags altogether. I think they ought to be banned. Make it easier so more people will do. Would be better not to use them More convenient locations to drop off bags would be good, as well as the option to put them in the comingled recycle. Every place that uses them needs to accept recycling. we would recycle if we didn't have a need for them would be nice to co-mingle the bags in the recycling cart seperate collection by trash collectors