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At 4. 00, the burden of that additional cost to the individual that is coming from a low Income Community. The other is, while i may be very interested in sustainable practices, does not mean my coworkers are as well. I am concerned that while we are going to put a burden on the businesses to charge 25 cents, i am concerned there will be a counter act of not going after not compostables that are more expensive because they will be charging the people for them until they would just find a cheaper method of charging, because it is no longer seen as a positive thing that we are offering a compostable as an alternative. Thank you. Thank you. My name is moses. I am the ice cream business. I believe you all know that i volunteer. The only thing i have a problem is that, how can i tell the tourists to bring your own cup . It is ice cream. How are we going to give them a reusable cup . If we want to charge them 25 cents because it is a ....
From customers bringing in their own food web. We encourage extensive Educational Outreach programs to be provided especially considering high tourist areas. Up to 90 of those visitors are tourist. We would urge you to consider the need to balance environmental and economic sustainable, so our local businesses that are struggling to survive are not pushed out of the city by lack of flexibility and closed by these type of regulations. Thank you so much. Hello. Thank you. My name is john borg. We are a Small Business based here that makes and supplies custom foodgrade, stainless steel, reusable food wear and drink where alternatives instead a Single Use Plastics or compostables. We are a wholesale supplier who sells to venues and restaurants in bulk for them to set up their own reusable programs. We have been op ....
Ordinance. In closing, i want to reiterate, this policy will save businesses money they will not be spending as much on disposables they will be recouping their costs with the charge, and they will save money with onsite dining. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. I am the policy organizer for upstream as well as a Small Business owner here in San Francisco. I am going to talk dirty to you, thats a horrible joke. I have a bunch of data on neighborhood cleanups that we have compiled with recent events here in San Francisco that i wanted to share with you as well as a little bit of information about how much of the city is spending on cleaning up litter right now. This year Data Collected during each cleanups, at baker beach included 86 of the total collected. Durin ....