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January 26, 2021
Mulvey, Jennifer Item No. 14
From: Carolyn Lund <carolynelund@gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 24, 202111:51 AM
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Subject: 1/26/21 NB Council Agenda, Item 14
Attachments: 25-19 Supporting A Pilot Amazon Pick Up Program In Marin County.pdf
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Agenda item 14: Residential Recycling Fees
Residents are facing an increase in per person recycling costs.
We would like to join other cities in asking Amazon to run a pilot Amazon Pick up and Reuse Program in our
community, in which delivery trucks pick up Amazon boxes and plastic mailers on subsequent deliveries and take
them back to Amazon warehouses for reuse.
This would significantly reduce the volume of recycling that the City will be required to do, and the cost.
We request that the council endorse the Amazon to Reuse Boxes Initiative, on behalf of the residents of Newport
Beach, by resolution.
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Amazon is the world's largest consumer of cardboard boxes and delivers roughly fifty percent of all e-commerce
sales. Amazon boxes account for an estimated thirty percent of all recycling and twenty-two percent of all refuse.
Reuse is key to this initiative. Reuse eliminates the need to remanufacture packing materials. It conserves natural
resources (timber, water, energy), forestalls industrial and landfill pollution, and helps communities achieve waste
reduction goals.
Support
Support for the Amazon to Reuse Boxes Initiative is spreading as an immediate, tangible, actionable, and pragmatic
way to reduce waste.
Eleven cities have already endorsed the initiative, including San Rafael, Novato, Fairfax, Belvedere, San Anselmo,
Sausalito, Corte Madera, Ross, Mill Valley, Larkspur and Muir Beach District. Attached is a copy of a resolution,
adopted by the City of Larkspur.
Please consider a similar resolution.
Sincerely,
Carolyn Lund
Committee Member, Amazon to Reuse Boxes Initiative
5304 Neptune Ave
Newport Beach
(415) 717-4656
CITY OF LARKSPUR
RESOLUTION 25/19
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LARKSPUR
SUPPORTING A PILOT AMAZON PICK UP PROGRAM IN MARIN COUNTY
WHEREAS, Marin County residents have petitioned Amazon to do a pilot Amazon
Pick Up Program in Marin County, in which delivery trucks will pick up used Amazon boxes
on subsequent deliveries and return them to Amazon warehouses for reuse;
WHEREAS, the petition has received more than 4,000 signatures of support both
online and in-person;
WHEREAS, the City of Belvedere, Muir Beach District, Mill Valley Refuse,
Redwood High School Environmental Action Club, Seniors for Peace, 350Marin, Resilient
Neighborhoods, San Domenico School Green Team and the Tiburon Mail Service have
endorsed the petition;
WHEREAS, in its Climate Action Plan, the City of Larkspur has committed to the
reduction of waste through reuse and recycling; and
WHEREAS, the reuse of cardboard boxes is key to this goal as it eliminates the
environmental and economic costs of curbside handling, long distance trucking, labor
intensive sorting, methane gas emissions from decomposing cardboard and re-
manufacturing boxes.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Larkspur
supports the petition for a pilot Amazon Pick Up Program in Marin County.
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that the City Council of the City of Larkspur duly introduced and
regularly adopted the foregoing resolution at a regular meeting held on May 15, 2019 by the
following vote:
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