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Attachment D: Text responses from consumer plastic bag ban survey It would be ideal if they could just go in with our co-mingle recycling. If a person feels they want to recyle their plastic bag, they can research where and how to do this. Save some tax payer money and don't even bother with this. Tax payers are not an unlimited source of funds you can continuously tap into. You have exhausted our financial resources and can't budget that well enough for the necessities. Every neighborhood should have a place to recycle plastic bags. I think there are enough options,and this bag issue is blown way out of proportion. Eugene is just copying what larger cities have done. I think we need to get rid of them altogether. More locations for people to put them. If stores stopped providing them, we wouldn't have to worry about it. We wouldn't need them if we got rid of the problem!! Don't just fight the symptoms Use them again There needs to be more publicity about how / where to recycle the bags, if Eugene enacts a plastic bag ban, which I favor. There is an abundance of options. People just don't use them for whatever reason. I like the biodegradable plastic bags Market of Choice provides. Every grocery store should have a recycling bin prominently displayed. Don't know what can be done. In the few cases where I have to use the bags, I want to have the option to recycle them The plastic carry out bags have multiple uses and they are convenient. To encourage recycling, it needs t be convenient also. the high pass waste transfer station doesn't offer bag recycling I reuse all for household use. No--Stop there use of plastic bags,not enough bags ever get recycled.and people and the environment pays! !! Paper bags and personal cloth bags are just fine. People need to get use to the fact they cannot continually abuse the environment. People need to grow up. They cannot always get their own selfish, lazy ways. I THINK A BAN WOULD PUT A HARDSHIP ON FOLKS WHO RIDE THE BUSES IN WINTER, ECONOMICALLY THEY WOULD HAVE TO BUY PLASTIC BAGS, STANDING IN THE RAIN WAITING FOR A BUS, W/A FABRIC BAG DOES NOT WORK! I DONT UNDERSTAND THE PURPOSE OF THIS BAN--EVERYTHING ENDS UP IN THE LANDFILL ANYWAY!-IT WOULD BE ECONOMICALLY DIFFICULT FOR MANY PEOPLE WHO ARE HAVING A HARD TIME JUST BUYING FOOD TO THEN HAVE TO GO AND PURCHASE PLASTIC BAGS--I JUST DONT GET THIS AT ALL--ELDERLY AND PHYSICALLY COMPROMISED FOLKS , LOW- INCOME-U GET WHAT I'M SAYING HERE. BUS RIDERS--LETS NOT MAKE THIS SO DIFFICULT FOR PEOPLE. With gasoline prices what they are, people are reluctant to travel to recycling facilities or their drop points. There can never be enough recycling options! it should be as easy as possible to recycle in as many locations as possible. at a minimum, the grocery stores should provide no-cost collection just more "in sight" containers at the grocery stores. Each individual should choose. NOT THE GOVT. tell s what we should and should not do. If folks SEE more recycling receptables they will start thinking more about recycling I am never sure where to take them