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Attachment D: Text responses from consumer plastic bag ban survey There should be stations everywhere at larger retail stores for people to recycle their plastic bags. Big box stores, and all markets. I don't know if there are any or what plastic bags can be recycled into if anything. The grocery store I use to recycle says they only accept the white plastic grocery bags and I have mostly clear bags; so I don't know what they do with mine--recycle them or just throw them away. They should be banned. If a store uses single-use plastic bags, they must provide a place to recycle them! I'd rather see them not used, but if they are, we need effective ways to recycle, including consumer education. Eg, when a bag is dirty, which is more environmentally friendly, to wash it, then recycle or toss it? Particularly at beginning allowing curbside recycling would be useful for those who inadvertantly forget to bring own bags how about other plastic such as items that are wrapped in plastic,preweighed fruits and vegetables that are in plastic,etc. these should also be recycled. Get rid of them. At grocery stores or other places that provide single-use plastic carryout bags, it would be convenient for me as a customer to be able to recycle these bags where I received them since I am likely to return to said establishment. It would be nice to have a curb side option many options are alive and well and right under our noses already If there is no ban on plastic bags there needs to be more information as to where we can recycle them properly. My recycling company doesn't take them and I don't have the time to drive out and recycle the bags properly so they end up in the trash, just like 95% of people. though i'd rather they just couldn't give me the plastic ones. i really only get them from the small corner stores - i get paper from the grocer. We should just get rid of them. For what ever plastic is already out there - it all needs to be reused People seem unsure of how to really recycle them. They end of being thrown away because they can't go into curb side recycle without gumming up the recycling sort machines. Hence they get thrown into garbage i.e landfill I didn't know they were recyclable. Can I just use my Sanipac bin? I have to make an extra stop at Albertson's to bring them to be recycled, and I don't normally shop there. Would be good to have more options in terms of stores that take them. Current situation is not impossible for me, but to encourage more people to recycle them it would help to have more places. Sanipac and Lane waste Sanipac should take them with other recycle Not if grocery stores that use them have recycle stations. This is a false option. Single-use bags should not be used period. A small percentage is recycled anyway. allow plastic bags to be recycled in recycling collection barrel Return from whence it came...what if a retailer did not offer any way to package your purchased products? hmmm.....that would take some planning. Please google "Spags" when you get a chance. No bags at Spags. A great store policy located next to an even greater city. I think the recycling of them into Trek decking boards is pretty cool, and the bins are convenient at grocery stores. We just need to get rid of them. They don't recycle all that well and the percentage is small of those that get recycled. There is not a huge market for them either.