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Attachment D: Text responses from consumer plastic bag ban survey Should not be used at all. I would ban all but those used for meat and fresh vegetable products. I think we need to get rid of single-use plastic carryout bags for good and forever, before our only home, this spaceship Earth, chokes to death. I don't know where one can recycle plastic bags... Just ban them, people will learn to take their own bags to the store. My daughter found this out during her study abroad in Ireland. I would prefer they just not be an option so we wouldn't have them to recycle. I think they should be recylced, clean and stuffed in one another, with regular recycling, or maybe by the newspaper drop off places. Plastic bags should never be produced at all. If someone "needs" plastic there are still options availabe, such as trash bags. Paper is much easier to recycle and will break down fast if it ends up in the landfill. Lots of options available. Perhaps we need more public info/encouragement to recycle bags. There are already plenty of opportunities for everyone that cares to take advantage of them. I shop in Eugene but reside in Cottage Grove and there is no convenient place to recycle here. bags can be recycled in the store they come from. I think they ought to be banned. While options exist they are not widely known or publicized. Most people either throw them in their curbside recycling not knowing, or throw them away thinking they cannot be recycled. I'd like to be able to recycle them along with my household co-mingled recycling, but if the City were to shift to ban plastic carryout bags- I would be happy with the current recycling options. I think we have enough options When there is no convenient way to recycle them, it is not worth the time to attempt to recycle. If every recycleable item has to be stored and picked up separately, it becomes a logistical mess. There are so many ways to reuse plastic bags, so many products that can be made from them. Eugene should be one of the leaders in this industry, creating products from discarded plastic bags. It's hard to know where to recycle these bags. If you ban I will not shop in Eugene again!! Your will loose Local Business from my entire family & neighbors! Keep that in mind!! I think more local recycling options for plastic bags, cardboard boxes and cans and bottles is urgently needed. I'm not sure why Eugene doesn't have at least one central recycling location for public use. Every store that supplies plastic bags should be required to have a prominent recycling station for them. Perhaps at every store? In store recycling options are most visible, but when I forget to bring my reusables for shopping, how on earth am I supposed to remember to bring all the other plastic ones back to recycle? If plastic carryout bags were recyclable at the curbside, it would be much more convenient. I think there are plenty of options for recycling for those who aren't too lazy to do it. Curbside pickup would be ideal though that was tried. I just use them as trash can liners and then throw them out. I don't recalll seeing plastic bag recycling at the smaller supermarkets which I more typically frequent. The chains seem to have them though. More education is needed on the use and recycle options available for plastic carryout bags. I do not call them single use, simply because my household uses them for small trash can liners until they wear out. We also use them for lunch bags until they have holes. Then the unusable ones are recycled at the store. Saves us from buying other plastic bags and throwing them away. Individual stores should take back and reuse their own bags.