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Attachment D: Text responses from consumer plastic bag ban survey I'd ratrher not see them at all. People mindlessly get them in supermarkets and many are probably not recycled, even though stores often provide options to recycle them. No, I think stores should charge .25 for each bag that people want. No, I think they should not be manufactured or presented as an option for consumers, period. It is always good to have more recycling options. If we have them at work, I have to bring them home to recycle them at a store. Our recycling provider at work does not recycle plastic bags The only place I know other than the dump is Fred Meyer... I have heard that often if you take them to the store bins they are not actually recycled, but thrown away. I wish there were more collection places. I also think that if it was possible to have them with our other household recycling many more people would do it. We need to make them obsolete more than making spending time on more recycling options. If was part of weekly garbage/recycling curbside program, I don't think we should use plastic bags ever. No opinion i think we should not be using plastic bags. If I didn't have that option, I might remember my own bags better. It would be nice to be able to recycle them through sanipac/lane apex pickup. The few bags that are not reused until they are dirty are recyclable at the grocery store which is convenient. No. I think they ought to be banned. Yes, if the ban isn't passed. curbside would be convenient When you factor in Peak Oil, Climate Change and the economic collapse and human suffering that will accompany them, it's not an exaggeration to say that we need a complete bottom-to-top restructuring of human civilization and we need it right now. For the City to be debating whether or not to ban plastic bags is absolutely absurd and an indication of serious delusion in our so- called "leaders". yes Recycling is available at grocery stores and glen wood transfer station where I use for taking sorted recycling and then can recycle them? Is there curbside recycling? I think they need to be banned because they are not a sustainable solution, even if they are recycled. Some sort of curbside recycling for plastic bags would probably increase the amount turned in for recycling. It would be terrific if plastic bags could be accepted in curbside commingle service, but I understand that isn't currently possible given the limitations of processing equipment. It would be nice if our recycle company would pick them up. Most grocery stores now recycle plastic bags -- Great! (Tho i'm curious what actually happens to them.) I am of the belief that they should be banned entirely. I have accumulated so many plastic bags (newspapers, bulk items grocery stores, etc.) and often it is difficult or inconvenient to recycle them; more recycling options are needed. Ignore the plastics industry and its paid lobbyists. It is time to end the pollution caused by plastic bags NOW!