And it can give government employees new resolve to pressure the private sector to get off the toxic treadmill. If government officials want to take stock of local practices, to see if it is feasible to reduce their use of toxics materials, they could start by picking up a copy of this new report. Everything they need to get started is right here between two covers. Some of the information is really exciting. For example, the City of San Francisco in late 1996 passed an ordinance requiring an immediate ban on the most toxic pesticides and a complete ban on all pesticide use by city government by the year 2000.
Giant steps are possible.
Because EHC has been working for so long in San Diego, the group is grounded in all aspects of advocacy. They know what it takes to get governments to move. So Toxic Turnaround includes everything necessary for a local government to start to reduce its use of toxic materials. Pollution prevention starts with a Toxics Use Reduction Policy. No pollution prevention plan can work unless it becomes official agency policy.