I met Mitchell Colbert on an NCIA policy call today. He’s doing a study to be presented at an upcoming ASTM conference about sustainability in Cannabis manufacturing.
If you work in a manufacturing lab and want to help, take this short survey.
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@Cassin have you seen this?
Yeah. Filled it out and everything all ready.
I feel like I read that in your voice and it was meh.
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Well. I’ve been a part of the sustainability project for almost 5 years now. And I’m working with ASTM D37 on their sustainability mission. And I’ve done other surveys quite a bit for that stuff.
And the questions of this were so behind in the times. Focus on recycling? The fuck is going on around here.
What about… energy saving? water saving? human capital sustainability by building closer to where people live AND/OR adding affordable, sustainable housing near your facility?
What about dealing with waste management BEYOND plant material and packaging? How about dealing with processing wastes? hazardous wastes? or CO2 off-gassing utilized for so many things? What about considering the implications of NEW buildings instead of repurposing existing buildings? Green/Lean/leed buildings anyone?
What about hazardous emissions monitoring and control?
What about dealing with the cannabis contribution to salts in our ground water and waste water systems?
How about the insane cost of all these things because they are not made even remotely local? What about the implication to state specific growers (aka local growers) getting pushed out as federal legalization starts rolling through?
Seemed like lip service to me… but then again maybe I’m missing something. Maybe it will be something more.
And the fact that it only really discussed changes to rules in California just made me want to shake my fist at the whole world. California has such unsustainable rules about just about everything related to cannabis and cannabis processing… who the fuck are they to try and do something more when they are still dealing with destruction of forests and ecosystems - ruining lives of established traditional market operators - and creating a cesspool of empty cultivation facilities on giant concrete blocks because they can’t manage taxation well enough to allow licensed operators to effectively compete in the 6th largest economy of the fucking world?!
But it could have just been:
Sometimes the less you say the more you say, eh?
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You’re my favorite
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