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Attachment D: Text responses from consumer plastic bag ban survey I would say about 80% of our bags are used to carry trash to garbage can and disposed of there. Being able to recycle plastic bags through local garbage pick-up companies (along with other recyclables) would be helpful. I think any merchant that provides them should have a recycling provision, as a matter of principle Yes, but plastic bags should be banned except in rare cases (meat packaging), and those that are provided by retailers should cost consumers at least .25 I think they should be banned. I moved here 12 years ago from Surrey British Columbia, and they were banned there. People used their own, or paper. We paid for each bag the store provided. that's a pretty good incentive to reuse the paper bags, or buy something sturdier to re-use. Some people used plastic milk crates to put their groceries in. I don't think enough people understand how easily they can be recycled People either do it or they don't. Maybe garbage companies offering it would help...but i thought the idea was not to use them at all. Making recycling easier would seem to encourage their use. If people insist on using them, they should be able to be put into weekly recycle blue boxes. Most people will not take advantage of recycling measures......too lazy! We need to rid the planet of plastic bags. I wish you could recycle them with all the other recycling that comes with garbage service MIX PLASTIC WITH RECYCLING BIN? I have plenty of recycling options near my home and on my way to and from work. Yes, I do. Although many retailers already have recycling available, many do not. We also need to make it more of a habit for retail employees to do a better job recycling plastic bags. I don't know how many times I go into a store and witness the cashier throw away plastic bags just because they tear it off the stack and the customer says they don't need it. We should all be able to recycle our plastic bags with our trash collection, in the recycle bins. If plastic bags are eliminated there is less need for recycling them If the things continue in use, they most definitively need to be recyclable, preferably compostable in home (not industrial) compost bins. If they could be recycled using the Sanipac large blue bins then I'd recycle all the available plastic bags. Better to just be rid of them- recycling is costly and harmful to the environment. Reusable bags are a more permanent and earth-freindly solution. Make it possible to put thyem in a separate bag and put in recycle bin. I would like to see my garbage hauler be able to pick up and recycle my plastic bags. This whole debate is a pointless waste of time. I am smart enough to reuse or recycle without the city of Eugene telling ehat to do. At the grocery store I can recycle they help the enviroment by not wasting water to clean the garbage cans and by not using electricity and soap to sanitize the cans. Beter use of other resources. The grocery store where I shop has a recycle station for these bags I think the options are adequate, but only for those already in circulation...no more should be produced. People that want to recycle these already are recycling. I am recycling by reusing. Can't put in trash hauler's recycling, they don't accept these. just quit having them at the store is a better idea. banning them would be better, but failing that, recycling needs to be available at trash pick up time like other recycling. Since I have one use for single-use plastic carryout bags, it's not really an issue for me.