Sonoma proclaims North Bay 0 Waste Week and hears 0 Waste Sonoma update on repair fairs, HHW facility and solar-panel recycling

The City Council adopted a proclamation supporting North Bay 0 Waste Week (scheduled for Oct. 18, 2025) and received a presentation from Leslie Lukasz, executive director of 0 Waste Sonoma, on Sept. 29.

Council member Ding read the proclamation on behalf of the mayor and presented it to Lukasz. Lukasz described 0 Waste Sonoma as a joint powers authority representing the county’s 10 jurisdictions and summarized the agency’s recent work: outreach and education (including a recycling guide printed in English and Spanish), repair fairs, household-hazardous-waste (HHW) services, a solar-panel recycling pilot, edible-food rescue grants and a proposed compost-processing facility.

Lukasz said the 0 Waste website is one of the agency’s most used tools and that the agency had nearly 150,000 visits overall and about 2,500 visits from Sonoma residents in the past year. She said 0 Waste Sonoma prints about 25,000 English and 13,000 Spanish copies of its recycling guide and provides Spanish-language outreach and radio programming. On reuse and repair, Lukasz said the authority will host a free repair fair in each of its 10 member jurisdictions and that Sonoma’s repair fair will return in May.

On hazardous-waste and infrastructure, Lukasz said the authority purchased four acres in Windsor intended to host a primary HHW…