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Attachment D: Text responses from consumer plastic bag ban survey Plastic bags at retail checkout stands should be banned and therefore we won't need more recycling sites for them. Also, many people recycle them in the other stream of recycling and gum up the recycling machines, which wastes energy, time, and money. Let's keep the current recycling stations and then encourage reusable bags by banning the bag at retail checkout stands. I believe the best option is a ban on plastic bags. The small number then used could easily be recycled at existing stations. More options, and publicizing these options. Many folks do not trust recycling in stores, suspecting that the bags are going in the trash anyway. I really don't know. I think they should just be banned. If they could be put in the recycle bin, that would be much easier. We have to make it as easy as possible for people to change, and having to remember to put take them to a special place for recycling is asking for people to not recycle them. BAN THEM! Please ban these bags! they are evil for our environment and by providing them, you are enabling our greater community to waste energy. A ban on bags would help all of us be less forgetful.. start with charging for the bag when people forget to bring their own. With the amount of plastic waste I see everywhere, I doubt that forcing retailers to change their bagging habits will solve the problem. I want NO plastic bags! Why use more resources to recycle something that took resources to manufacture. Ban them! These bags are very bad for the environment, wild animals, and our dependence on petroleum products. The most convenient thing would be to be able to put them out w/ the regular recycling once a week. Can't they go in the blue bins? I've seen recycling bins at our local store. My guess is that most people reuse them, then throw them away. If people put them straight in the trash when it's so easy to recycle, then I doubt more options for recycling will help them. Perhaps if Sanipac offered an option... all convenient stores and grocers should have recycle bins. I think they need to stop being produced. Not sure. There are recycling bins at almost every grocery store. Not sure about big box stores, but that would be a good place to have them. Get rid of them! I think more retail stores, including grocery, should have clearly labeled bag recycling bins by all of their entrances. Sanipac should accept bags in commingled curbside that are consolidated in one bag and tied shut. All bag dispensing retailers, including farm stands, should take bags from patrons at the checkout stand (i.e. don't dish it out if you can't take it). It would be very convenient if curbside city recycling pickup allowed single-use plastic carryout bags. With all the problems with the economy in Eugene, Lane Country, and Oregon is this really the best use of the city council's time is to push an enviro-Marxist agenda? I mean, I know this is the crazy lazy state of Oregon that is busy pushing businesses, entreprenuers, and jobs out of state, but really? Really? If other places want to set out bins, that's fine. There are currently plenty of places to recycle them.