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Attachment D: Text responses from consumer plastic bag ban survey No there are always ways to recycle and reuse. Pets, gardening, food preservation, trash can liner. I think most people use them as trash bags, instead of purchasing new ones. They are recyclable so more effort should be made to make it easier for people to drop them off for recycling. not sure Include in Co-mingle curbside pick-up recycling. Also for plastic produce bags. More sites to recycle at, and either curbside recycling or publicity if there already is curbside. They get to be really unsanitary. Why accumulate such a germ reservoir? The library, St. Vincent DePaul's, and Good Will are always happy for people to bring them some plastic bags for their customers to use. Ideally, there would be very few of them because so few retailers would dispense them. I'm thinking so few single-use plastic bags would make investment in recycling cost prohibitive. On the other hand, many such bags would make their way into the trash because of exceptions to the ordinance and from sources outside the city. Cost effectiveness of recycling would have to be studied. Free from stores Places to recycle them should be beter advertised. Containers in the retail store, particularly department stores that use plastic bags, but don't have a place to recycle. Let's ditch them instead! Plastic bags are so over. I think they should be banned, and replaced with affordable, biodegradable bags. Perhaps if it were easier to recycle I would. More stores should have facilities to recycle plastic bags. Carryout bags can be recycled in grocery stores and in the co-mingle carts but non-standard plastic bags (Ziplocks, large food bags, etc) need more options. I would like to be able to recycle plastic bags at schools. I think residential disposal services should collect them along with other recyclables from people's homes. This misses the point. Recycling is what you do when you have waste. The energy, pollution and waste created by plastic bags happens during manufacture. Finding a new way to recycle them makes very little difference. If a store uses plastic bags, they should be required to recycle them. It would be ideal if bags of bags could be co-mingled as so many more people would do it. We have become spoiled by co-mingled pick ups - but it works to make people recycle! There should be more advertisement encouraging people to recycle plastic bags and showing where it can be done. More recycling outlets/recycle boxes for plastic bags would be nice. just eliminate them We need to eliminate their use. Hard question. If you do not reuse the bags then yes they should be recycled. To ban them would be silly. It would cause people like me to have to buy the plastic trash can liner bags and then throw them away. The end result is the same except for the cost of buying the bags. I think the grocery store options are quite convenient. But ultimately I think we need LESS to NO plastic bags at all. They should be done away with Just ban them. They should be banned.