by Dena Allen | Jul 5, 2020 | Zero Waste, Actions, Uncategorized
The Zero Waste Chef has a timely Plastic Free July blog post titled Plastic Free July: The Pandemic Year(s). Check out all 17 ideas here to help you reduce plastic this month. Here is idea #17 illustrating the intersection of environmentalism, health,...
by Laura Neish | Jun 6, 2020 | Zero Waste, Actions
How can you avoid single use shopping bags? Instead of using single-use paper or plastic bags at check-out, load your paid-for groceries back into your shopping cart. When you wheel the cart to your car, transfer the items into the bags in your trunk. Or-...
by Lucy Kenyon | Aug 4, 2018 | Zero Waste, Regen Ag, Actions, Issues
Ask the Sonoma County Waste Management Agency board to accept their staff’s recommendation that Renewable Sonoma be awarded the commercial compost operation contract for the proposed Llano Road site (by the waste-water treatment facility). Send emails to the SCWMA...
by Lucy Kenyon | Jun 28, 2018 | Zero Waste
Hello Friends, We are bringing Zero Waste to the Peacetown Summer Concert series in Sebastopol at Ives Park on Wednesday evenings starting July 4th! The Peacetown Green Team is looking for on-site volunteers to help set-up, monitor and take-down our brand new...
by Lucy Kenyon | Jun 28, 2018 | Zero Waste, Actions
By Caitlyn Thomasson Folks in Sonoma County are learning how to work towards Zero Waste by composting, recycling, and reducing plastic use. Considering that Sonoma County residents contribute 4.6 pounds per person, per day to the landfill, this is an much needed...
by Laura Neish | May 12, 2018 | Zero Waste
It has been a big month for the Zero Waste team. We worked with the Santa Rosa Junior College student sustainability group to present Wasted, a deep and sometimes profane look at food waste throughout the world. The conversation that followed was lively and...
