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Attachment D: Text responses from consumer plastic bag ban survey Just think we need to do away with them. it's not yet accessible enough for the average person so more recycling options (along with educational efforts) could hopefully increase the amount recycled At all stores which have single use plastic carry-out bags Get rid of them then we don't need more options. Too much waste as too many used for packing. They become litter and endanger wildlife. Why can't we put them in the Sani-Pac plastic recycling container that we leave at the curb? we never throw plastic bags in the trash without being used for additional purposes. Ban plastic bags. A very few recycle or reuse them. Everyone else just throws them away. Always see them as litter. I use plastic grocery bags to line my bathroom trash cans, pick up dog droppings in the back yard. If I did't have "free" bags to use, I would just be out buying small trash can liners for what I currently utilize grocery bags for. It makes absolutely no sense to me to ban plastic bags for our household. Need to apply a low cost charge as we have on bottles and cans, then watch the people out gathering them as they do cans. Prepaid cleanup! Just ban them. There is absolutely no reason to provide them. Consumers have plenty of other choices they need to be able to go into the curbside recycling program - but they really need to be phased out completely I think it is unnecessary to spend so much time and money on such an unimportant subject. I would like to see my government working on things like law enforcment or something Sanipac doesn't pick them up. Should go out with other recycling If they had them available at the grocery store it would be handier. The grocery stores are adequate. The city is wrong to ban plastic bags. I'm not even sure what you are asking. I recycle all my plastic bags, and all my neighbors on my street do also. They are easy to recycle now. Why dictate another level of beauracracy? I recycle mine in my regular comingled recylcing site offered in my apartment complex, so there it is very easy I think there plenty of other options besides using plastic bags. But also, ban the use of single-use plastic carryout bags by retailers in Eugene. I would like to see more places that people can take plastic bags for recycling. Right now I only know of a few stores. Can a resource list be published in the R-G or in the city newsletter? If there is a list I have not found it. I would use options if I knew about them. Ease of use equals use. Put recycling of plastic bags with the other recycling machines at markets and/or make them curb recyclable. Use bags that will last through more uses and charge consumer. Educate on use and reuse rather than ban. It seems like the City cannot do the job it has now, don't add to load without adding the cost to admin. Most grocery store already have barrels available for deposit of plastic bags if people accumulate too many. Returning them to store for recycling is convenient enough. But more efforts could be made to get them into the hands of pet owners for waste pick-up (see comments below). have notices in stores where to recycle the single-use bags