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OUTCOME-BASED INDICATORS <br /> <br />1-A Amount of Single-Use Plastic Bags Entering Storm Drains <br />ACCWP participated in the development of the BASMAA baseline trash generation <br />rate study. A total of 47 drop inlet full trash capture devices located throughout Alameda County were included in the study. The study included an assessment of the <br />volume and number of single-use plastic bags found in these 47 inlets as well as over 100 other inlets from throughout the Bay Area. Since the conclusion of the study, the <br />Alameda County Waste Management Authority has adopted a single-use bag ban. As of January 1, 2013, all grocery stores, supermarkets, mini-marts, convenience stores, <br />liquor stores, pharmacies, drug stores or other entities that sell milk, bread, soda and snack foods (all four items) and/or alcohol (Type 20 or21 license) in Alameda County <br />must comply with the Single-Use Bag Ban Ordinance. <br />ACCWP will conduct a follow-up study to assess the number and volume of single-use <br />plastic bags in storm drain inlets throughout the County following the implementation of <br />the bag ban. The study will consist of re-sampling most or all devices sampled during <br />the previous study and comparing the number of single-use bags found before versus <br />after the implementation of the bag ban. ACCWP will also sample up to 50 additional <br />full trash capture inlet devices from high and medium trash generating areas <br />throughout the County and compare the number of single-use bags found in all of the <br />sampled inlets in Alameda County after the adoption of the bag ban versus the <br />number of bags found in inlets throughout the Bay Area during the baseline trash <br />generation rate study. ACCWP is planning to assess the level of single-use and other <br />trash in all of the approximately 100 inlets again after several years to assess the overall <br />decline in trash over time. A detailed study design is included in the ACCWP Pilot <br />Assessment Strategy to be submitted separately. <br /> <br />1-B Amount of Polystyrene Food Ware Entering the Storm Drain System <br />As noted above, ACCWP participated in the development of the BASMAA baseline <br />trash generation rate study. A total of 47 drop inlet full trash capture devices located <br />throughout Alameda County were included in the study. The study included an assessment of the volume and number of expanded polystyrene (EPS) food ware items <br />found in these 47 inlets as well as over 100 other inlets from throughout the Bay Area. A majority of the fourteen cities within Alameda County have adopted expanded <br />polystyrene food ware bans. San Leandro and Pleasanton adopted their expanded polystyrene bans after the completion of the BASMAA baseline trash generation rate <br />study. <br />ACCWP will conduct a follow-up study to assess the effectiveness of the EPS food ware <br />bans at reducing the amount of EPS entering the storm drain system. As San Leandro and Pleasanton have adopted their ban since the completion of the baseline study, <br />the follow-up study will compare the volume and number of EPS food ware items in the full trash capture devices in those two cities before and after the implementation of the <br />bans. ACCWP will also sample a total of up to 100 full trash capture inlet devices from <br />356