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From: Mejia, Anthony
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2014 3:55 PM
To: Kremke, Kate
Subject: FW: Styrofoam Ban!
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Anthony J. Mejia, MMC I City Clerk
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From: Marx, Jan
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2014 3:52 PM
To: Gold Concept
Cc: Mejia, Anthony
Subject: RE: Styrofoam Ban!
SEP 0 2 2014
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Thank you for your message. I am including our city clerk in this response so it is posted as agenda
correspondence.
Best
Jan
From: Gold Concept [ mailto :thegoldconceptagmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2014 1:24 PM
To: Marx, Jan; Smith, Kathy; Carpenter, Dan; Ashbaugh, John; Christianson, Carlyn
Subject: Styrofoam Ban!
Hello to all of you,
I am writing you to show my support for the ban on styrofoam. As part of the Sustainability Council for The
Chamber of Commerce and a small business owner, this is near and dear to my heart. I would certainly
encourage you to go for Type 4. I realize regulation cost would increase in order to keep businesses honest with
implementation. The upside would be a much cleaner, environmentally conscious city. We have a chance to
again set a great example for other cities. I am sure you all know the serious environmental impact that plastic
and especially Polystyrene are having on our environment. If you have not yet seen this documentary, Plastic
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1 highly suggest you watch it. We as a city have a phenomenal opportunity to make everlasting, positive change
with this ordinance. I really hope that everyone understands the fairly minimal monetary increase for these
containers would be vastly offset by the overall well being of us and future generations. People have a tendency
to look at this subject in very short term single subject terms. "Cost" being the money one business has to spend
for the product. What is not factored in is the "True Cost" to a community. Health care costs for disease and
respiratory ailments, environmental clean up factors, food chain pollution, the cost of jobs as fisheries become
impacted, as well as costs we cannot even begin to understand. These items are known to be toxic, yet we keep
producing them and using them because it is "good for our economy." This short term thinking has lead us to
the environmental predicament we find ourselves in now. Let's join the cities that understand the time for
change and leadership is now.
With that I want to commend you all for taking this on. As with any change I am sure people will complain and
gripe. But this is a matter of our well being as a species as well as all life on this planet. Our actions have far
reaching consequences regardless of how much money we "saved ".
Thanks you very much for reading this.
All the best,
Aaron Gomez
thegoldconcept.com
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San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
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