my name is alexa kelty with department of the environment and i thank you for listening to this item. peter, our policy person s going to load the presentation for me. and i also wanted to thank supervisor brown's office for their leadership on bags and all their other environmental policies that they are working on. we really appreciate it. so it's going to be a bit of a review from what juan carlos already covered. so i will breeze through this quickly. but essentially last year national geographic and many of you know there is a plastic crisis. we're producing too much plastic. and national geographic last year on the cover came out with an article and the front page article on the plastic crisis. and there is 700 million tons of plastics going into our ocean annually. the only way to get to this issue is by turning off the faucet. recycling ourselves out of this issue is not going to work. 9% of all the plastic ever produced on the planet is recycled. the rest is landfilled or ending up in the environment. we need to look at how can we really reduce plastic from being produced to