Are punitive measures and the models you said youre right, theres different models of dealing with things at the end of life. The big challenge comes when you have a commodity with no value. Cell phones, you just take them back to whatever Cell Phone Store you bought them because theres value to them. The problem comes to things like florescent light bulb. The Battery Industry is doing this on their own. They have the Rechargeable Battery that does the outreach. So companies are very familiar with this model of producer responsibility. So i dont think thats a problem and you are correct that there are different ones. The issue of enforcement. How do we know theyre doing a good job . We have various points along the way of these mild stones where we can check in. The way these ordinances are put together in Alameda County and king county and other products like paint and thermostats is the company, the organization that non profit puts a plan that have to get approval from us. Is the ou
Repeatedly, you become depend on them and addiction have followed these curves as theyre shown here. We have a little bit of San Francisco statistics about the deaths and supervisor breed mentioned this earlier. 127 prescription poisoning deaths and out of those, most were op theyre sedatives used in Mental Health. There was one study done on prescription opioids cost. It showed a 55 billion cost to the United States in 2007. Some was work place and some were health care and some was criminal justice. The National Institution of drug abuse asked what was their first a young people use pills as well. This is from the modern of future studies that looks at high school. Kids, basically. And theyre using various prescriptions, vicodin, sedatives, oxy cotton and ritalin. Its not just people on the street addicted, but its young people taking some of these pills. And when theyre asked about where they got the pills, many of them are taking their own leftover medication. So again, you are pre
Submitted. Again, the requirement of whole sellers in San Francisco or through the state needs to be registered so we know who all the wholesalers are and we can work with them since they have to be registered with the state, so well find out who the producers are and who is participate and who is not. The ordinance provides for both Civil Penalties of up to 1,000 per day. It has been the departments practice that we really believe that producers are going to participate. They want to participate. Again, we think that some of the other options that we have and weve discussed them is to be very public about which producer was participating and which producers are not participating and letting the public know that information. Those are the mechanisms, we think are going to be engaged. We look to examples in alameda and in king county that are ahead of San Francisco in implementation and in those two counties, were seeing producers step up to their responsibility and have filed plans and