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CSU Sacramento project earns QAPP, expands participatory trash monitoring in East Bay
Summary
A participatory monitoring project led by Julian Fulton at CSU Sacramento has secured a Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP) that allows volunteer‑collected visual trash assessment data to be used as regulatory evidence under municipal permit requirements. The effort begins field data collection in Richmond and will expand to additional East Bay,
Julian Fulton, a researcher at California State University, Sacramento, said the team’s participatory trash monitoring effort in the San Francisco Bay region has reached a regulatory milestone by obtaining a Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP). "We're kind of hitting prime time now with, the participatory monitoring of trash conditions in 4 cities in the East Bay," Fulton said.
The QAPP certifies that data collected by trained high‑school students and community volunteers meet quality control and documentation standards required by regulatory…
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