paul on behalf of recology. recology through sunset skafben energy. recology supports this legislation for a couple of reasons. environmental and also for worker's safety. i've been asked a couple of times, when i throw the drugs into the trash, which i'm told to do it, it's in a container or blister pack, that's not going to get into the environment. just to give you an idea of where that goes. when the trash gets picked up, it goes to a compact truck that crushes it down to 2/3 volume and it's run over by a tractor and they compat it further before it's pushed off a ledge and driven to a land field, and dumped in the land field and run over by bulldozers. that might be the only way to get the cap off the bottom for some of those medications. the others is for safety worker. we want to get to zero waste and that means we have to touch every trash in san francisco. that means that workers are going to be exposed to these drugs and medications. for those reasons -- speaker: i would like to call a few more cards. speaker: richard and sonia and catherine

today we are at recology. they are celebrate 20 years of one of the most incredibly unique artist residency programs. we are here to learn more from one of the resident artists. welcome to the show, deborah. tell us how this program began 20 years ago. >> the program began 20 years ago. our founder was an environmentalist and an activist and an artist in the 1970's. she started these street sweeping campaigns in the city. she started with kids. they had an exhibition at city hall. city officials heard about her efforts and they invited her to this facility. we thought it would coincide with our efforts to get folks to recycle it is a great educational tool. since then we have had 95 professional artists come through. >> how has the program changed over the years? how has the program -- what can the public has an artist engage with? >> for the most part we worked with metal and wood, what you would expect from a program like ours. over the years, we tried to include artists and all types of mediums. conceptual

we have a great partner with recology. you heard they support this. that's huge to have support from our partner from the business sector and that's how we're going to make it successful. i want thing i want to reiterate, we heard the phrase, a lot today and it's two words, shared responsibility. this is how we do it. it's responsible and i think for those in the industry who has raised concerns it's a way for them to step up in shared responsibility as well. thank you. speaker: thank you. speaker: if there's members of the public who would like to speak who haven't had an opportunity, please line up to my left. speaker: my name is renee and i'm a town council member in fairfax. i would be remised in not thanking you for your leadership. we're new kids on the block in marin. we had 65 members of the sectors. in marin county there was overwhelming support for pursuing this. i'm here to thank you for the leadership and we'll call upon you for your expertise as we move forward. speaker: thank you. any other members of the public who would like to provide

walgreens, nice water, the emerald fund, recology, the hilton, academy of arts university. pg&e. lesser cabs. sf clean city coalition. local 261. san francisco's unified school district. [cheers and applause] the housing authority. i saw barbara smith join. juvenile probation program. project 23 trial diversion program. the california department of corrections and rehabilitation. san francisco park alliance. united players. cyc. go care. zoo khai -- sorry. san francisco middle school. all right. [applause] [inaudible] elementary school. chinese newcomer service center. san francisco department of environment. and last but not least san francisco rec and park . [cheers and applause] back to muhammad. >> all right. a few more people who are in the house that we should acknowledge. i see mr. tom cotton there from the port of san francisco leading the port. i see ms. san francisco in the house. welcome. i see first lady anita lee to volunteer today. i see barbara smith from the housing authority and tom and leading building inspections and make suring they're safe and for everyone to

department of the environment, the public utilities commission, the department of public health, recologythe san francisco medical society representing over 1500 physicians and medical students. the san francisco suicide prevention center, alcohol justice, the national coalition against prescription drug abuse, the california retailers association which we just received a letter of support from today. and state wide environmental and senior groups including california produce stewardship council, green city california, clean water action, and the california association of retired americans. and i have a letter of support from all 12 of the independent pharmacies that have been participating in the city's pilot program. in considering this issue, we can either side with environmentalist, police officers, doctors, drug treatment centers, seniors and our own city department or we can side with the drug companies. i know some will say this ridge legislation won't remove all pharmaceutical from our water and stop addiction. i know that. i agree. i would never argue this legislation is a cure a

about 10% of what we collected -- what we did was got permission to actually work with recology once we collected them to sort them. it was very time consuming and about 10% are controlled substances by weight. speaker: yeah, the question wasn't asked to look at individuals, but -- speaker: as a whole we think it's 10% controlled substance and the other is -- if it's not a controlled substance it can have the ability to disrupt -- this is the problem drugs are by definition bio active. that's what they're designed to do, so when they get into the environment, they are bio active there as well. speaker: thank you very much. speaker: thank you very much, supervisor yee. next i'd like to invite up dr. judith martin, the deputy of health services and medical director of substance use services as the department of public health. speaker: thank you, president breed and chairman yee and supervisor christensen. i was asked to talk about the effects in the interface between this pioneering ordinance and my field which is addiction. and i'm trying to close this slide so i can open mine. thank

a recology truck crushed a little girl's foot.california trucking association will provide drivers and big rigs to create a safety video, capturing san francisco's unique challenges. >> details the drivers need and tourists in huge numbers and have numbers we don't see anywhere else >> we're requiring our truckers be they city employees o r >> it is an ambitious goal to make accidents like this a thing of the past. >> we need to do whatever we can to make it easy >> safety video should be ready to roll by the end of the month. in san francisco, abc7 news. >> all right well, we're enjoying beautiful weather here these days so not as windy and warmer. >> yes. >> a lot warmer is an understatement. just a few high clouds around and temperatures down into 50s. now, 60 degrees in mountain view and fremont. forecast features check out this view of the skyline. blue skies there, we'll see a big warm up record highs possible but hazardous beach conditions so you may want to hold off on the trip to the beach. here is our satellite image sho

a recology truck crushed a little girl's foot. now, california trucking association will provide drivers and big rigs to create a safety video, capturing san francisco's unique challenges. >> details the drivers need and tourists in huge numbers and have numbers we don't see anywhere else >> we're requiring our truckers be they city employees or >> it is an ambitious goal to make accidents like this a thing of the past. >> we need to do whatever we can to make it easy >> safety video should be ready to roll by the end of the month. in san francisco, abc7 news. >> all right well, we're enjoying beautiful weather here these days so not as windy and warmer. >> yes. >> a lot warmer is an understatement. just a few high clouds around and temperatures down into 50s. now, 60 degrees in mountain view and fremont. forecast features check out this view of the skyline. blue skies there, we'll see a big warm up record highs possible but hazardous beach conditions so you may want to hold off on the trip to the beach. here is our satellite imag