my cosponsor supervisor mar and supervisor yee and to many of the folks like debbie rafael and maggie johnson at the department of the environment and all of the stakeholders and supporters throughout the city and county. >> san francisco won't back down from protecting our environment or protecting public safety now is the time for us to pass this law and make it convenient and safe for san franciscans to do the right thing with their leftover medication. colleagues, i hope you will support this legislation today. thank you. >> thank you president breed supervisor yee. >> thank you and thank you president breed for such a you know, detailed summary of the discussion we had at the gao committee we had a very lengthy discussion there and there were actually many many questions that were asked and it was a really good discussion and i want to thank all of the stakeholders that actually showed up for that discussion it lasted for 2 and a half hours but i wanted to also acknowledge as you have, debbie, from the san francisco department of environment because some of the questions that were asked

speaker: i'm maggie johnson with the department of environment. i'm the project manager for the pilot program. there are two existing organizations that we know of. one is called the pharmaceutical product stewardship working group. i always get it wrong, sorry and then the other is a group that's called, i believe, return meds. and it's actually organized by another product stewardship organization for -- that has focused in the past on rechargeable batteries and it's call to recycle. you might have seen them. both of those organizations have done plans and submitted them to king county. speaker: king county? speaker: king county, washington. speaker: so these groups have a presence in the bay area already? speaker: yes. speaker: so then the city having collected the contact information and notified the pharmaceutical companies all over the world, is the city in a position then to suggest to the pharmaceutical companies who are located miles away, how they might take a step toward implementing this or do these potential coalition organizations re