you know

have them work with us and follow our rules and regulations.

So there's a lot of people involved to get on board with this program, including the vendors, obviously.

So there's a lot of challenges when it comes to that.

The way I saw it was you have to have everything in paper.

You have to have the vendors sign the contracts, update and amend our rules and regulations, and be very explicit in what we require.

So when I started here, I started to... go to the conferences.

Beau knew from his investigations that items made from PLA, a compostable bioplastic which you may have heard of and that we'll talk about a lot on this show, were not allowed in the city collection because their facilities can't or won't process it.