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Land Use Committee advances ordinance to audit large refuse generators, sends amended bill to budget committee
Summary
The Land Use Committee advanced an amended ordinance requiring audits of large refuse generators and requiring corrective action (including 0‑waste facilitators) for entities that fail audits; supervisors agreed to move the measure to Budget & Finance for fiscal review.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors Land Use Committee on Sept. 17 advanced an amended ordinance that would require audits of large refuse generators and set enforcement paths for repeated contamination, sending the proposal to the Budget and Finance Committee for further review.
Sponsor Supervisor Asha Safai described the initiative as part of the city’s broader 0‑waste goal and said the committee made several amendments, including moving the ordinance’s effective date from Jan. 1 to July 1, 2019, and giving the Department of the Environment and Recology three years to complete baseline audits of the roughly 520 accounts in scope. "We're gonna move the effective date from January 1 to 07/01/2019," Safai said during the committee meeting.
Director Rafael of the Department of the Environment framed the ordinance as a response to a persistent problem: the department’s audits show about 60% of material entering the "black" waste stream is recoverable. "This is a solution…
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