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Committee discusses methods for pre/post monitoring of Pinole's new single-use foodware ban
Summary
Project leads described plans to engage high school students in pre/post monitoring for a new single-use foodware ban in Pinole and discussed logistical protocols for using trash-capture device contents as a pre-ban baseline, including recommendations to extract material before mixing and to repeat sampling after storm events.
Researchers planning a Bay Area study said they will engage high school students in participatory monitoring to measure the effect of Pinole's new single-use foodware ban on plastic foodware entering storm drains.
Pinole enacted the ban shortly before the meeting (a presenter said it took effect "6 days ago or whatever the first"), and project leads proposed a pre/post assessment. Because much of the city employs full trash-capture…
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