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Attachment D: Text responses from consumer plastic bag ban survey But I would much prefer to see less plastic bag usage in the first place. More publicity for recycling stations would be helpful, but I'd rather the plastic bags were banned! The more rural waste pick up stations don't take plastic bags. Would like to be able to recycle them from my home pick-up site. More drop-off points and/or an option for home recycling pick-up. I think discouraging the use of them to begin with is the best long term bet Disincentives should be put in place so that people aren't inclined to let the grocery bagger place one jug of milk in a plastic bag. This happens and won't stop if the only action taken is the proliferation of recycling options. Actually, I think they should be banned. I just purchased reusable produce bags and intend to limit my use of single use produce bags. They just need to be outlawed. curbside! curbside! curbside! It makes NO SENSE to have other recyclables picked up every week that doesn't include plastic bags! It used to be included - bad mistake to let that go! I don't think they should be available at all. I think more people would recycle them if it was possible to place them in the comingle recyle bin. I see them there anyway even though I know they should not be. While there are many people who will go to the extra effort of taking them to a drop off point, the majority will not. Providing more recycling opportunities for plastic bags won't change people's behavior. Providing fewer or no bags will. I didn't even know that plastic bags were recyclable It is difficult to get the bags to stores with the recycling bins and I rarely visit those stores that do either. A recycling option with the recycling picked up from homes would encourage more recycling of the bags by others as well as being easier for me. According to most waste managers and the best education I can provide myself, we simply don't have an end market for recycling our exponentially increasing volume of bags. It's also of observation that recycling reinforces the consumptive behavior, thus compounding the high waste to low end market problem. It's actually a suggestion that we encourage people to use other plastic bags, such as those bread comes in, for our needs. They can be taken to stores for putting produce in if people need such a sack. More would be recycled if Sanipac and Apex picked them up, as well. At the common recycling area at my apartment complex many people put plastic bags in the recycling because they are unaware that you have to return them to the grocery store to recycle them. There are containers in most grocery stores to put extras in if you get too many... which we never seem to. I think they should not be used at all. Paper bags, although not sustainable, are far better than plastic. At least there could be more advertisement of the fact that options exist. I only found out about many of them on this survey. What's NEEDED is for people to care more, and to stop making so much garbage; and then to be educated about the importance of personal responsibility for the garbage they do generate. Because less than 10% of the single use plastic bags are recycled now. The only option is to ban single use plastic bags.