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Apologies for Cross-postings >To: "Jeffrey Smedberg" <dpw179@no.address> >Cc: crra_members@no.address, "Mark Murray" <murray@no.address> >From: Robert Haley <robert.haley@no.address> >Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 10:45:26 -0700 >Subject: Re: [CRRA] Plastic Bags - How did SF circumvent AB2449? > >AB 2449 prohibits "... a city, county, or other public agency from >adopting, implementing or enforcing an ordinance, resolution, regulation, >or rule that requires a store to collect, transport, or recycle plastic >carryout bags or conduct additional auditing or reporting, or imposing a >plastic carryout bag fee upon a store..." AB 2449 does not prohibit bans, >refunds, etc. Our ordinance, drafted with our City Attorney's assistance, >simply requires supermarket and chain drugstore checkout bags to be >compostable plastic, recyclable paper or durable reusable. It does not do >any of the things pre-empted by AB 2449. > >We hope other local jurisdictions will quickly pass whatever bag >legislation they can that is not pre-empted by AB 2449. We must also work >to prevent other State and Federal pre-emption efforts in general (not just >on bags). > >Robert Haley >Zero Waste Manager >SF Environment >City and County of San Francisco >415-355-3752 > >Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. >******************** > >From: "Jeffrey Smedberg" ><dpw179@no.address> > >To: <crra_members@no.address> >Subject: [CRRA] Plastic Bags - How did SF circumvent AB2449? >Date: 04/06/2007 09:48 >AM > > > Congratulations to San Francisco for adopting Supervisor > Mirikimi's > plastic bag > ban. > > > What am I missing? Last year's AB 2449 (Levine), which the > Governor > signed, included a local pre-emption provisions that would prevent > local > agencies in California from adopting fees and recycling > requirements on > affected > retailers. > > > Is SF's approach legal because it avoids fees by imposing an > outright > ban on non-compostable > bags? > > > Can someone enlighten > me? > ______________________________________________________ > > Jeffrey Smedberg, Recycling Programs > Coordinator > County of Santa Cruz Public Works > Department > 701 Ocean Street, Room 410, Santa Cruz, California > 95060 > 831/454-2373 Fax 831/454-2385 > recycle@no.address Gary Liss 916-652-7850 Fax: 916-652-0485 www.garyliss.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GreenYes" group. To post to this group, send email to GreenYes@no.address To unsubscribe from this group, send email to GreenYes-unsubscribe@no.address For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/GreenYes?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- |
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