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events that are made out of scrap cloth here in san francisco. our department pledges to conduct extensive outreach to the retailers and restaurants in san francisco to help them understand the benefits and prepare for this ordinance and to promote this to the general public. in sum, we are here in support of the ordinance to expand the plastic bag band for a number of reasons. one we are catching up with other cities and countries. but we also have an opportunity to continue to lead the way. dd first by charging for reusable bags given the problem of them given for free and used as ...

n in sum it will allow us to lead the way and retain our leadership in fighting plastic bag pollution reducing resource use and pursuing it in san francisco. thank you very much for your consideration. supervisor avalos: thank you very much. any other parts of your presentation? >> jack macy is also here. supervisor avalos: and you have an amendment as a whole that you gave to us? >> correct. supervisor avalos: if you want to explain to me the amendment as a whole? >> the amendment of the whole is to do what i described before, the clarification and phrase changes that i describe to ...

n in sum it will allow us to lead the way and retain our leadership in fighting plastic bag pollution reducing resource use and pursuing it in san francisco. thank you very much for your consideration. supervisor avalos: thank you very much. any other parts of your presentation? >> jack macy is also here. supervisor avalos: and you have an amendment as a whole that you gave to us? >> correct. supervisor avalos: if you want to explain to me the amendment as a whole? >> the amendment of the whole is to do what i described before, the clarification and phrase changes that i describe to ...

bag pollution reducing resource use and pursuing it in san francisco. thank you very much for your consideration. supervisor avalos: thank you very much. any other parts of your presentation? >> jack macy is also here. supervisor avalos: and you have an amendment as a whole that you gave to us? >> correct. supervisor avalos: if you want to explain to me the amendment as a whole? >> the amendment of the whole is to do what i described before, the clarification and phrase changes that i describe to you. supervisor avalos: nonsubstancive? >> that's my understanding, yes. supervisor aval...

support. as you know san francisco was the first u.s. city to ban plastic check out bags over four years ago. that ban only applied to supermarkets and to pharmacy chains, and the ordinance helped to reduce plastic bag litter in san francisco as you heard by 18% which was a great victory. it also reduced contamination in our collective recyclables and compost. although we do take great pride in being the first city to have banned plastic bags in the u.s. and are pleased with the impact that the original ordinance made, plastic bags continue to be a problem in san francisco. i would l...