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San Francisco Neighborhood Drop off Locations For Household Hazardous Waste

San Francisco Neighborhood Drop off Locations For Household Hazardous Waste. Julia Au SF Department of the Environment HHW/Used Oil Conference Sacramento, CA November 4, 2009. What Type of Sites?. Overview. How does our program work? Three way partnership

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San Francisco Neighborhood Drop off Locations For Household Hazardous Waste

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  1. San Francisco Neighborhood Drop off Locations For Household Hazardous Waste Julia Au SF Department of the Environment HHW/Used Oil Conference Sacramento, CA November 4, 2009

  2. What Type of Sites?

  3. Overview • How does our program work? • Three way partnership • Recruiting, setting up & promoting sites • Maintaining sites • Lessons learned

  4. Over 100 Drop-Off Locations! 107 battery sites 8 latex paint sites 35 fluorescent sites

  5. Three Way Partnership

  6. How Do We Get Sites? • We seek them out • Find stores that sell what you want to take back • Write letters and visit stores • Stores come to us

  7. Setting Up A Site • Trainings

  8. Fluorescent Light Training • Residential program • 5 light limit • Provide spill kit (gloves, dustpan, sponges, bags) • Provide boxes (8 ft & 4 ft)

  9. Paint Store Training • Standard operating procedures • Residential only, 5 gallon limit, latex paint ONLY, no unknowns/leaking containers • Leave binder of info, tracking log

  10. Outreach Materials

  11. What do the stores get in return? • Local promotion as drop off site

  12. SF Environment EcoFinder

  13. Maintaining Sites Biannual site visits Continual conversations with drivers and stores Important to make our sites happy to continue to be in the program

  14. Lessons Learned Improper storage • Sites aren’t always going to be perfect and follow the rules

  15. Lessons Learned • Retrain stores • Easy access to program phone number • Get the right contact • Making the program flexible • Accommodate their schedule • Storage flexibility

  16. It’s A Win-Win-Win Situation! • Resident’s get haz waste out of their homes • Retail program success • Lessening environmental harm • Stores provide a service to the community

  17. Thank You! Julia Au Residential Toxics Reduction Associate SF Department of the Environment (415) 355-3757 Julia.Au@sfgov.org

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