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Commission hears update on battery-collection programs and emerging e-mobility risks

San Francisco Commission on the Environment · February 5, 2024
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Summary

Staff outlined San Francisco's curbside, apartment-bucket, and retail battery-collection programs, rising collection trends, low multifamily participation, and new challenges from e-bike and vape-pen batteries.

On Feb. 5 the San Francisco Commission on the Environment received an update on the city—s battery-collection programs, including curbside bin-top collection, apartment battery buckets and a retail drop-off network.

Toxics program manager Paolo (presented under multiple name variants in the transcript) and Huey Lehi reviewed program design and outreach. Lehi said curbside bin-top collection accounts for the majority of batteries recovered, followed by…

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