City of Baltimore - File #: 06-0161R

• File #: 06-0161R
• Version: 0
• Name: A Request for Improved Practices for Baltimore City's Environmentally Friendly Food and Beverage Service Businesses
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 4/4/2006
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 8/14/2006
• Title: A Request for Improved Practices for Baltimore City's Environmentally Friendly Food and Beverage Service Businesses FOR the purpose of requesting Baltimore City's Recycling Program to assist food and beverage service businesses either by organizing them to make collection by private contractors economically feasible or by implementing a more efficient and effective City collection of their recyclables, and by creating a local food waste composting program for them.
• Sponsors: James B. Kraft, President Young, Robert Curran, Edward Reisinger, Mary Pat Clarke, Kenneth Harris, President Dixon, Belinda Conaway, Keiffer Mitchell, Paula Johnson Branch
• Indexes: Beverage, Food, Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
8/14/2006	0	Education, Housing, Health, and Human Services	Recommended Favorably
8/14/2006	0	City Council	Adopted
5/15/2006	0	Education, Housing, Health and Human Services	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
4/7/2006	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
4/7/2006	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
4/4/2006	0	City Council	Introduced
4/4/2006	0	City Council	Assigned

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: Councilmember Kraft


A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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A Request for Improved Practices for Baltimore City's Environmentally Friendly Food and Beverage Service Businesses

FOR the purpose of requesting Baltimore City's Recycling Program to assist food and beverage service businesses either by organizing them to make collection by private contractors economically feasible or by implementing a more efficient and effective City collection of their recyclables, and by creating a local food waste composting program for them.
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The recycling program provided by the City of Baltimore is insufficient to reduce the negative ecological and environmental impact that its food and beverage businesses create. Restaurants and bars produce thousands of pounds of glass bottles as waste a month in addition to cardboard, office paper and food wastes. A lot of these recyclable materials are not collected during scheduled collection days because too many recyclables are produced to only be collected every two weeks. This recyclable waste ends up unnecessarily filling landfills or accumulating in alleys or dumpsters, attracting vermin and adding to the City's litter problem.

The food and beverage businesses in Baltimore City would benefit from either of two alternative solutions to this problem. The City should either assist businesses in banding together to make collection by priv...