You can probably tell that cspn is here. Its really nice when people can hear the questions that you have to ask so please make your way to a microphone if possible. The last thing id like to say, i mentioned this is the second of three events today. We do have about 500 events a year here in the store, probably another 100 or so at other locations including the busboys and poets. A lot to keep track of all those events as well as our classes and trips and other programming. If youre interested this knowing more about what were offering, you can find the information at politicsprose. Com, and we just got our august calendars. Theyre lovely. They are at the information desk. Please, feel free to pick one up so you know whats going on in august. But now to the reason that youre actually here which is the book and the author. Its really a pleasure to host Robert Doubek this afternoon at politics prose. Hell be talking about his new book, creating the vietnam memorial. If you didnt live in
One at Community Behavioral Health Services in sylma serve as sites. Were halfway there and then you add the our Public Police stations. Were over halfway there. We think we have an opportunity to make this convenience a reality. Next i really want to stress that the ordinance really was designed with a lot of flexibility. To allow producers to be very creative, and their approach to bringing convenience forward. As was said earlier, producers knows their industry best. They can leverage their knowledge in creating a take back site. They dont have to provide collection sites. They can use prepaid mailed envelopes where for seniors and others who are maybe home bound or disabled and cant get to a location, you can use that. They can do collection events and many other things. If they cant reach the five pharmacies or five drop off locations in a soup it allows flexibility. They can come to the department and said we tried and we couldnt find every facility available, but heres what were
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
Pharmacies to make sure they understand whats expected of them. So it allows pharmacies to take back control substances or not. Pharmacies have a choice. We have ten Police Stations that are set up to take control substances, if a pharmacy decided theyre uncomfortable doing controlled and uncontrolled substances. Residents want this convenient solution. Thats clear. Now, one could ask, if this is good for Alameda County and we have other counties considering it, why isnt there a state wide solution. I couldnt agree more. Thats the right question. In fact, we had permission as a city to come out in favor of state wide legislation last legislative session. We actively educated legislatures about this issue. The problem was we had a big concerted effort by industry to block a state wide solution. So when i hear from industries saying we need a state wide solution, i agree, and join me, my call to industry if thats what we need, join San Francisco in getting a state wide solution just like
Consumers have a responsibility making sure that things go in the right place. Retailers have a responsibility. A responsibility to help us beat Collection Sites and in San Francisco, every walgreens takes back batteries. We have dozens of sites to take back paint, florescent light bulbs. The missing link in this shared responsibility is the producer. The producer making money off these product and have an obligation to help us and work with us to make sure theyre safe. Thats what extended producer responsibility means. In San Francisco, we have examples of that on paint, on light bulbs, on thermostats, on batteries, on cell phones, the list goes on. We need that to also be the case for pharmaceuticals. So we did a take back program to prove a concept because this other question you need to answer is, is there a Cost Effective method. There is. We collected 23 tons. And we did so with a voluntary system with pharmacies. We didnt have to cohearse them. We have a Community Center and the