Sanchez asks whether public compost bins can serve as education

On this topic of public composting, I am curious as to what the definition of education is.

And just to piggyback off of what Councilmember Resser was saying, having more of these public compost bins,

especially in places like these parks, wouldn't that part of education show how easy composting is and how, you know, getting more people to be able to compost, especially when they're doing things in the park like barbecuing and, you know, bringing food.

Dominican, so we bring a lot of different food and being able to be able to compost all of that when it's not eaten or whatever.

Wouldn't that be a part of the education that would be able to show how easy it is to truly compost?

I think it could be, but I think there's some, you know, pretty...

As we've discussed before, we don't have very much in the way of baseline funding for education and outreach around our zero waste programs and our recycling and composting programs.

And so, you know, I think that could contribute.

But if we're not teaching people about why they should compost or how they can compost, I think giving them access to a bin isn't necessarily the most effective thing that we can do.

So, you know.

Again, to roll out the bill as it's been introduced, we're looking at millions of dollars in expense money to purchase additional bins and install them.

And I think that money could better be spent on maybe on community composters going out into neighborhoods and teaching people about why they should compost.

So what you're saying is we need baseline funding in order to convert more wives and husbands to composters.

I would love that.

Thank you.