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Commission backs single-use foodware plastics, toxics and litter reduction resolution after amendments and disability community concerns
Summary
The commission voted to approve a resolution supporting the draft single-use foodware plastics, toxics and litter reduction ordinance with editorial and substantive edits, setting phased implementation dates and noting exemptions and outreach to disability and small-business communities.
The San Francisco Commission on the Environment voted July 24, 2018 to support a resolution backing the San Francisco single-use foodware plastics, toxics and litter reduction ordinance sponsored by Supervisor Katie Tang and the Department of the Environment. After staff read proposed edits and Commissioners offered amendments, the full commission approved the resolution as edited.
Director Deborah Rafael introduced the ordinance and said it was a forward-looking step to reduce plastics, litter and toxic fluorinated chemicals that enter food and the marine environment. Jack Macy, the department's commercial zero-waste senior coordinator, presented the ordinance's five main components:
- Ban on single-use plastic accessories such as straws, stirrers, cocktail sticks and similar items made of plastic (including…
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