How we might uh ease of limitation for everybody. Thank you. Thank you very much. Commissioners questions . I have one quick question. What about when you go to a coffee shop and you get a cup and its already a biodegradable cup. Are you still want to be charged for biodegradable replacement cup . A lot of that stuff we are have ordinances in place. This is my concern. You know, styrofoam is banned in this town. The stuff you are getting already is biodegradable. Im trying to figure out what i am missing here. Right. I think some of this, and i think anybody in the coalition of advocates who are supporting the transition to reusables, even from compostables right now, will admit, you know, i think it was a little bit shortsighted to think because it is compostable means it is being composted. In fact, a lot of this waste, same with recyclables, is not. We want to diverted from landfill. Unfortunately, even if single use items are technically compostable or recyclable, a lot of them are
From customers bringing in their own food web. We encourage extensive Educational Outreach programs to be provided especially considering high tourist areas. Up to 90 of those visitors are tourist. We would urge you to consider the need to balance environmental and economic sustainable, so our local businesses that are struggling to survive are not pushed out of the city by lack of flexibility and closed by these type of regulations. Thank you so much. Hello. Thank you. My name is john borg. We are a Small Business based here that makes and supplies custom foodgrade, stainless steel, reusable food wear and drink where alternatives instead a Single Use Plastics or compostables. We are a wholesale supplier who sells to venues and restaurants in bulk for them to set up their own reusable programs. We have been operating over a decade supplying venues, businesses of all kinds, schools, nonprofits events, restaurants with stainless steel cups, bottles, food containers, utensils and straws i
Ordinance. In closing, i want to reiterate, this policy will save businesses money they will not be spending as much on disposables they will be recouping their costs with the charge, and they will save money with onsite dining. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. I am the policy organizer for upstream as well as a Small Business owner here in San Francisco. I am going to talk dirty to you, thats a horrible joke. I have a bunch of data on neighborhood cleanups that we have compiled with recent events here in San Francisco that i wanted to share with you as well as a little bit of information about how much of the city is spending on cleaning up litter right now. This year Data Collected during each cleanups, at baker beach included 86 of the total collected. During a Mission District cleanup clean up come on and around four blocks on september 28, 12 volunteers picked up three a items, 298 of which were single use beverage rap or containers. That is 74 . [reading notes] s this is o
Been, and theres even more. We are going until 8 00 tonight, so thank you for being here. I hope you are having a wonderful day. For those of us online in streaming online, im carla hayden the librarian of congress, and this is one of my favorite as you could imagine. And our next author is not only a local celebrity, hes also an international one, jeff jose andreas is well known for the many extraordinary restaurants that he runs as he is for his humanitarian efforts. In fact, he will be leaving directly after this program to go help others. [applause] said hes backstage signing books right now because if he doesnt he wont be able to catch his plane. Following the 2,010th pick in haiti, jeff andreassen formed over the central kitchen to feed the distrust island nation and then after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2017, he once again answered the call for relief efforts by providing millions of meals for this team. [applause] his efforts and experiences are recounted in his book we fed an
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