Drake’s Brewery will replace approximately 290,000 feet of plastic film and 16,640 pounds of wooden pallets per year by purchasing 32 reusable plastic pallets, 12 pallet wraps, and 300 pallet bands to move raw materials and finished product across the brewery’s production spaces.
Community Impact Lab strives to be a force for action and to expand opportunities that everyone, especially women and children, have to be impactful. Engaged 25 CIL members to take the 6-week Stop Food Waste Challenge and shared 6 educational posts. Culminating event piggybacked on cooking meals for Women's Shelter and potluck. Engaged other community groups, as well. Funds supported reusable containers for monthly dinners.
Funds used to help increase participation in residential food scrap recycling.
MedShare recovers and reuses medical supplies from Bay Area Hospitals and redistributes them both in the Bay Area and abroad. Funds to develop a Biomedical Equipment Lending Library which will increase donations from hospitals and manufacturers to MedShare.
Community Impact Lab strives to be a force for action and to expand opportunities that everyone, especially women and children, have to be impactful. Grant funds to support collection of donated textiles, fabrics, toys and baby supplies annually through the Baby Box Program, offered to vulnerable populations. Project includes repair and repurpose of damaged goods for donation and retail purposes.
MedShare is a humanitarian aid organization dedicated to improving the quality of life of people, communities and our planet by sourcing and directly delivering surplus medical supplies and equipment to communities in need around the world. Funds used to purchase a forklift to increase efficiency and square footage, and reduce footprint by phasing out off-site warehouse.
Evergreen Nursery in San Leandro received a 2017 Business Efficiency Award for Excellence in Waste Prevention & Closing the Loop from StopWaste.
Elementary, middle and high school students from across the County have been showing fans how to properly sort recyclables and compostables from trash at Cal football and basketball games as part of our partnership with Cal Athletics which began in 2014. Now Cal Athletes are helping out at the schools.
With the passage of Proposition 67, California became the first state in the nation to enact a state law to ban plastic shopping bags. The passage of Proposition 67 does not change the implementation of the expanded reusable bag ordinance in Alameda County.
Since 2013, grocery stores and certain other food retailers in Alameda County have not been allowed to provide single-use plastic carryout bags at checkout, and the results have been great for our local environment.
The Alameda County Waste Management Authority approved an expanded reusable bag ordinance for Alameda County. The expanded ordinance will apply to all stores and restaurants in the county, and will go into effect on May 1, 2017 for retail stores and November 1, 2017 for restaurants.
