CRRA2019

Jeanine Sidran is a senior program specialist at StopWaste. She has more than 10 years’ experience working with residents, businesses, students and schools to incorporate waste reduction practices and policies including the Reusable Bag and Mandatory Recycling Ordinances. She currently works with reusable transport packaging grants, HHW and reuse social media, maintains the RecycleWhere.org tool, participates in the Reuse-Repair Council, and runs the helpline for the Agency. In her first five years at StopWaste she was the Education Center Coordinator. She holds a BS in Marine Biology, Masters Degrees in Education and Cultural Anthropology, a Certificate in Nonprofit Management, and is certified as both a Master Composter and Master Gardener.

Reuse/Reduce

Creating opportunities for reuse and repair in your community.

StopWaste utilizes a list of Guiding Principles to inform its programmatic and budget development. The goal is to employ an adaptive approach to strategic planning, focusing our efforts where we can achieve the greatest results in support of our mission, stakeholders, and member agencies.  A key Agency guiding principle is to emphasize waste prevention over management of discards, which has resulted in projects and programs that provide funding, support, assistance and coordination with the upstream industry for over a decade. This work has allowed Agency staff to become well versed in the opportunities and barriers that face the reuse and repair industry.  StopWaste has taken several approaches to create, support and increase projects and programs that promote reuse, repair, recovery and redistribution infrastructure in Alameda County. Meri Soll, Senior Program Manager, has been managing the Agency’s programs that address reuse and repair including grant funding programs, policy and pilot projects.  The presentation will highlight grants, stakeholder working groups and partnerships the Agency has been involved with to help support upstream in the region.