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Attachment D: Text responses from consumer plastic bag ban survey Only if they continue to be used. Grocery stores are enough. Although it would be good also if our garbage service picked them up. Make them very visible so everyone sees them every time they go into a store. They are now in dark corners out of the way. Not all recycling areas have containers for plastic bags curbside recycling Anything to keep them out of the land fills & water ways! I recently watched the documentary, "Bag It" & will be changing my behavior. I was more ignorant about this than I thought because the clerks at Martket of Choice told me their plastic bags were bio-degradable so that's what I thought was true. I'd rather not have single-use carryout bags at all, but if we have them then there should be more options for recycling them. We don't need more recycling options that most people won't use anyway. We need to eliminate the wasteful bags altogether. I have no problem with it, but others may or quit making them! I think we should do away with them completely. If we have more recycling options then it would reduce the amount of plastic that is going into the landfills, which would be better our environment and health. They should be phased out of our history. The only place I know that takes them is the grocery store, and it's often an overflowing but out-of- the-way bin. When I do remember to take mine back to the store to recycle, i never seem to see anyone doing the same. i wonder how long those bags have been collecting there. The store doesn't really push the recycling of bags. And I've heard that "contamination" of the bag (with paper/receipts, etc.) can doom the whole load. So it seems like a second-best option. More sites at grocery stores would be helpful. they need to be banned Yes and no, actually. I think there should be more visibility for recycling points at stores. Seems to me that most recycle bins for bags are kind of tucked away in unhandy places. My solution to the problem is to ban these single use bags altogether. I would like to be able to recycle plastic bags with my home recycling pickup. I know they'd have to be separate from other recycling but I do that anyway. It's hard to remember to take them to the grocery store (Market of Choice) for recycling, so sometimes, not often, I throw them in th trash. More recycle stations not at corporate stores like Safeway. I don't know where to recycle them, so we try to reuse every bag at least once- but often they end up being mini garbage bags. It's easy enough to recycle plastic bags with the options in place. i think plastic bags at stores should be eliminated I'd prefer co-mingling iof plastic bags were not so pesky in the recycle sorting process. I think they should be banned. Recycling them is a feel-good solution that does not address many of the real problems with plastic. obviously there's the need for some plastic bags in supermarkets. But I hope every market in Eugene not only has a box where bags can be recycled, but a place where you can cheaply and easily buy durable bags for reuse. there are plenty of ways to recycle plastic bags already available Every major retailer that distributes these bags should be required to provide for their recycling. Curbside!