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San Francisco environment panel debuts multilingual outreach for bag ban and healthy-homes tips
Summary
City outreach staff showed multilingual materials and explained door‑to‑door, mail and merchant campaigns to prepare restaurants and residents for the Oct. 1 expansion of the checkout-bag ordinance and for healthier indoor cleaning and pest control practices.
San Francisco’s Commission on the Environment on Aug. 6 heard staff presentations showing the public-facing messages the city will use to prepare businesses and residents for a broader checkout-bag ordinance and for a new healthy‑homes outreach effort.
Department outreach manager Donnie Oliveira told the commission the campaign is using multilingual collateral and a mix of mailings, placards, door‑to‑door visits and phone banking so restaurants and retail establishments understand how the expanded ordinance will affect them. ‘‘We have been mailing to all the restaurants in the city,’’ Oliveira said, and staff said they have visited thousands of businesses and will continue in‑person outreach…
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