| Freeport, ME: Styrofoam Ordinance [doc] |
| Polystyrene-Freeport, ME: January 1990;
No retail food vendor shall serve or sell prepared food and no food packager
shall package meat, eggs, bakery products or other food in polystyrene foam
(PSF) containers. No vendor in the town of Freeport who sells tangible
personal property at retail shall sell polystyrene foam food or beverage
containers. |
| Suffolk County (NY) Ban of Plastic Grocery Bags and other Plastic Food Containers |
| Polystyrene and Polyvinyl Chloride-Suffolk County, NY: March 1988
No retail food establishment located and doing business within the county of
Suffolk shall sell, give or provide individual eating utensils, individual
food containers or other packaging to any consumers within the county of
Suffolk if such individual eating utensil or individual food container is
composed of polystyrene or polyvinyl chloride. This subsection applies only
to eating utensils, food containers or other packaging which is added to or
placed with a food product at the site of the retail food establishment. |
| Sonoma County - Polystyrene Ordinance [pdf] |
| Polystyrene-Sonoma County, CA: June 1989;
In order to prevent litter and protect human health and the health of the
environment, the county prohibits the sale, possession, or distribution of
polystyrene food packaging at all county-owned facilities. |
| St. Paul MN: Environmental Preservation: Plastic Packaging |
Plastic Packaging-St. Paul, MN: January 1991;
No retail food establishment shall sell, convey, or possess food or beverage
placed, wrapped, or packaged at any time in packaging that is not
environmentally friendly. Environmentally-acceptable packaging is defined as
recyclable or returnable. Exceptions to the policy are made for medical
purposes, paper packaging coated with plastics, when no commercial
alternative is available, etc. |
| Pittsburg, CA: Food Packaging Ordinance |
| Food Packaging-Pittsburg, CA, January 1993;
By January 1993, at least 25 percent of the volume of all take-out food
packaging used by a restaurant must be returnable or recyclable. By January
1995, the required volume increases to a minimum of 50 percent. Restaurants
must phase out the use of CFC-produced polystyrene and are encouraged to
purchase packaging from post-consumer recycled materials. The enforcement
takes place during the annual renewal of the business license (8.06.200 and
210). |
| Berkeley, CA: Comprehensive Plastics Policy |
| Comprehensive Plastics Policy-Berkeley, CA: June 2000;
The city of Berkeley believes first and foremost that the manufacturers and
producers of plastic products and packaging must take some form of
stewardship over their material. This includes designing products to be
reused or recycled, using recycled material in their products, and
supporting the recycling infrastructure. The city supports bottle-to-bottle
recycling and the reduction of plastics packaging through reusable
materials. The city of Berkeley will promote and encourage source reduction
and recycling of plastics, and the purchase of products containing recycled
materials by all city departments and contractors. |
| Garbage-Free Family Meeting Lauded |
| NOTE: The zero waste project at the 4th World Meeting of Families held in Manila from 22-26 January 2003 was a resounding success... |
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| RR Parks Project |
| How the State Could Support the Development of RR Parks |
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| Electronics Waste Update |
| The Integrated Waste Management Board baseline study on electronic waste |
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| Communities with Take It Back! or EPR Resolutions for Cathode Ray Tubes or Electronics |
| Image of the communities in California with the ewaste resolutions |
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| Save Our Sierra Nevada Forests |
| Fact Sheet and how you can help save California's forests |
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Letter to CIWMB Linda Moulton-Patterson |
| The Global Recycling Council of the CRRA has often commended the leadership of the CIWMB for its foresight and leadership in adopting Zero Waste as one of its goals in your Strategic Plan. Attached is a letter from GRC and other signatories calling upon you to take steps to implement that goal for California with a Zero Waste Challenge, to both California communities and businesses. |
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| CA Zero Waste Communities Strategy |
| Stategy on how to create a Zero Waste Community |
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| Zero Waste Communities [Slide Show] |
| Presented to Palo Alto Zero Waste Task Force February 10, 2005 |
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| Oakland, California adopts a Zero Waste Goal |
| March 8, 2006 : Resolution Adopting a Zero Waste Goal By 2020 for the City of Oakland Directing the Public Work Agency... |
