is handled by recology.want them to reach their 2030 goal, they need to find a home basically recycle or eliminate all most 170 thousand tons of material per year, so that is a lot of material that we need to recover by the year 2030. that requires some ■a■usignific program development in the next 5 years. if you look at this through the greenhouse gas lens in our department is shifting looking at greenhouse gas to more consumption based inventory model, but for this presentation i wanted to just focus on landfill and 5 percent of our emissions city wide are coming from what is out of the landfill, and that's equivalent to all most 45 thousand gas powered vehicles on the road annually, so that is the 186 all most 187 thousand tons of co2 emit from the land fill which is primarily organic material. i will switch gears and talk about our priorities for recology in the next rate cycle. we have been talking to them, so this wont be brand new. we hope to implement our reuse program and bulky item pickup program.

so the refuse rate administrator basically released instructions in september to essentially recologyo put forward their proposal for what their budget would be over a three year rate period, which would begin in october of 2026, 2025. so they have been given instructions to start making those projections and determining what their work program will look like and the way that the city handles the departmental pieces is to also include what san francisco environment and dpw need in their budgets as well. when they hear an aggregate proposal for what the rates should be. so that aggregate proposal is due to the refuse rate administrator in early january. so the way that it works is right now our zero waste staff on the program side have been in a lot of regular direct communications with recology about what they see as priorities for the city. what do we need recology to implement and do in order to help us meet our zero waste goals and meet the city's top priorities? and they've presented to the refuse rate board on that already, and will have some of that information in the likely dec

and inside recology, san francisco's recycling company, they sort that into aluminum cans, glass cans, and different type of plastic. san francisco is making efforts to send less materials to the landfill and give more materials for recycling. other cities are observing this and are envious of san francisco's robust recycling program. it is good for the environment. but there is a lot of low quality plastics and junk plastics and candy wrappers and is difficult to recycle that. it is low quality material. in most cities that goes to landfill. >> looking at the plastics industry, the oil industry is the main producer of blastics. and as we have been trying to phase out fossil fuels and the transfer stream, this is the fossil fuels and that plastic isn't recycled and goes into the waste stream and the landfill and unfortunately in the ocean. with the stairry step there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. >> we can recycle again and again and again. but plastic, maybe you can recycle it once, maybe. and that, even that process it downgrades into a lower quality material. >> it i

today we are at recology.t 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 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 artists, at installation, photographers, viographers. >> that has really expanded

in terms of finding folks that need to be contacted by us, we rely on recology.t there. whenever they might service a trash can, they let us know and we make the right contact with the ratepayer and start that dialogue to be sure they either increase their service or perhaps have more frequency of their service. we also have partnerships with larger organizations like the community benefit districts and the green benefit districts. i think in general, the more kind of intel and the more information we can get, the better, whether it's a community group, whether it's just a constituent, ultimately the people that live in these communities are the experts on what's going on with them and we rely on them on what we need to be doing and looking to better serve them. so in years past, we would issue citations and i suppose there is a very blunt way of putting this. we would issue a citation. if someone didn't pay it, we would send a letter saying you need to pay it. after that letter, we would send another one and threaten to send them to collections. if they didn't p

and inside recology, san francisco's recycling company, they sort that into aluminum cans, glass cansd different type of plastic. san francisco is making efforts to send less materials to the landfill and give more materials for recycling. other cities are observing this and are envious of san francisco's robust recycling program. it is good for the environment. but there is a lot of low quality plastics and junk plastics and candy wrappers and is difficult to recycle that. it is low quality material. in most cities that goes to landfill. >> looking at the plastics industry, the oil industry is the main producer of blastics. and as we have been trying to phase out fossil fuels and the transfer stream, this is the fossil fuels and that plastic isn't recycled and goes into the waste stream and the landfill and unfortunately in the ocean. with the stairry step there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. >> we can recycle again and again and again. but plastic, maybe you can recycle it once, maybe. and that, even that process it downgrades into a lower quality material. >> it is ch

me like mz■-ou overhead has been creeping up and like certain things like internet, electricity, recologyfor all those things, but i noticed from having my past business and then now the new business the cost of business greatly increased, so one of those know, just the trash bills and things like that. i am kind of interested in what that looks like for our small businesses and how we can kind of support and just like basic understanding of what it takes to open a business. so, yeah, those are some of the things that i'm working on right now. alright. anybody else? i thought you were coming with half hour presentations here. we are ready for a 4 hour meeting. [laughter brash ]. next time. seeing no other questions or comment up here, any public comment? you don't all of the exciting-- [laughter] i want to appreciate you all for sitting and being here. seeing no public comment, public comment is closed. next item, please. >> item 9, adjournment. sfgotv please show the office of small business slide. >> we will end with reminder that the small business commission is a official public forum