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City unveils "Trash Free San Leandro" initiative to reduce single-use foodware and promote reusables
Summary
Environmental Services Manager Carrie Parker introduced a city initiative to reduce single-use disposable foodware, promote reusables, and pursue outreach and pilot programs. Staff also announced a new management analyst hire and plans to recruit a waste reduction coordinator.
Carrie Parker, San Leandro's new environmental services manager, presented the "Trash Free San Leandro" initiative on April 21, urging residents, businesses and city departments to reduce single-use foodware and adopt reusable alternatives.
Parker explained the rationale with data from coastal cleanups showing the most common litter items are lightweight food-related items such as cigarette butts, beverage bottles, bottle caps and food wrappers. She said jurisdictions cannot "recycle or compost our way out of this" and emphasized upstream…
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