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.

Environmental Analyst

Kristy Morris has a Ph.D in Environmental Science from the Griiffith University, Gold Coast Australia. Kristy works in the Office of the City Manager at the City of Hermosa Beach and implements sustainability best practices across city departments including managing the City’s solid waste hauler franchise agreement, Citywide Facilities Recycling Program (CFRP), implementing the City's Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP) Program; CalRecycle Compliance Reporting and other solid waste initiatives and requirements.

Education and Outreach

The City of Hermosa Beach hosted the first community-wide garage sale on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2018. The purpose of the garage sale was to assist residents in clearing out their garages to make room for their vehicles that may otherwise be parked in driveways and extending over the sidewalks.

Interested residents registered their house, building or block in advance of the event so that they were included in the garage sale map, advertising and donation pickups. Typically Hermosa Beach residents require a permit to host a garage sale which was waived for this event. The event was scheduled in coordination with the Los Angeles County Household Hazardous Waste Roundup on the same day in the City. Habitat for Humanity, Salvation Army and Athens Waste Services were available at a drop-off location on the afternoon of the event for the collection/bulk pick-up of unwanted items.

The success of the coordinated garage sale has led to it becoming an annual event. This presentation will share the experience and lessons learned from planning and implementing the City of Hermosa Beach first community-wide garage sale. This information can assist other municipalities and community organizations in planning and hosting similar events to encourage reuse and reduce waste from entering the landfill.