Fwd: City of Monterey plastic food container ban that takes affect this month.

[Bruce England]

Hello all former waste working group members et al:

I'm not sure if this is something you'd like to aware of or respond to, but I'm passing it along for your reference in any case.

Bye for now!
Bruce England

Reply-To: mul...@ix.netcom.com
From: "Trish Mulvey" <mul...@ix.netcom.com>
To: "Patty Rosewater" <Rose...@stevet.net>, bken...@earthlink.net
Subject: FW: FYI -City of Monterey plastic food container ban that takes affectthis month.

Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 16:43:52 -0700

fyi, please share since not sure who is following these ideas in your parts of the planet

i suggested if brett isn't interested in moving to palo alto... he see if his daughter might want to write the san jose city council (committee considering reusable bag options 8/24) and write paul rogers a thank you for his plastic ocean trash story today

trish

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Brett Calhoun

To: Bob Kass;Tovar, Melody;Bobel, Phil;mul...@ix.netcom.com;Vishakha Atre;Chris Sommers;Kelly Carroll;Leslie Stobbe

Cc: John Fusco; Jill Bicknell; Downing, James

Sent: 8/4/2009 1:44:09 PM

Subject: FYI -City of Monterey plastic food container ban that takes affectthis month.

All,

 

Here are a couple of attachments from the City of Monterey that may be of interest to both the WMI-Zero Trash folks and the SCVURPPP Trash Ad Hoc Task Group.

 

My daughter was at the Young Women in Science program last week at the Monterey Bay Aquarium continuing her education in oceanography, environmental  stewardship, pollution prevention, and leadership training all mixed in with some sailing, kayaking, boogie boarding and bantering around behind the scenes at the Aquarium. 

 

She went on a field trip to the Waste Management facility in Seaside one morning and learned about the various recycling programs such as the ìLast Chance Mercantileî at the landfill and also learned about legislative actions to control plastic food containers.  Of course I had to field the questions of why we donít have a plastic bag ban or plastic food container ban here Ö  my weak explanation earned me a 14 year olds disapproving frown. 

 

Brett 

 

 

J. Brett Calhoun

Senior Water Quality Specialist

Environmental Management Unit

408 265-2607 x2653

408 529-3659 cell