Welcome to the Forum for the 2020 Sustainability and Climate Action Plan! Please explore the Draft Co-Benefits and the draft Goals & Key Actions provided below at your own pace.
Within the Draft Co-Benefits Forum, you can review the proposed co-benefits in more detail and see what your neighbors have said. The Draft Co-Benefits Forum has now been closed to additional comments.
Within the Goals and Actions Forum, you can click the heart icon to indicate goals & key actions you think are important to Palo Alto, share your thoughts about why you like a particular goal or key action in the comment box, or read what your neighbors are saying.
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Please see my comments in Public Health, Public Safety, Productivity and other areas. Educating the Public about Waste Management is critical; informed purchasing is essential so the consumer knows why the cost of something is disproportionally related to the type of packaging as well as the impact it has to manage it when it is accumulated as waste! In addition, how the packaging and waste are sorted, cost of sorting, cost of landfill, cost of recycling, and illustration of where the material is reused after being recycled. Hopefully then people would think more about why they are purchasing something and what happens to it when they discard it. Waste contaminiation eventually effects water, air and soil. Education is essential!