Community Outreach Grants Application Packet
This grant includes more in-depth outreach with community members, including tracking at-home data to provide deeper insight into successes and challenges to adopting food waste reduction behaviors. The maximum grant award is up to $10,000 per organization, and must be used to support new or existing projects that address the issue of wasted food going to landfill.
StopWaste Sustainable Purchasing Policy Template
The StopWaste Sustainable Purchasing Policy Template is designed to establish your agency’s core expectations around how your agency’s purchases will support your agency’s environmental, social, and economic values.
Recycling Resources & Case Studies
We offer free downloads of guides, vendor lists, case studies, and signage to help make your organization more sustainable. Some materials are also available in hard copy. Select from the categories below.
Paperless Express
This 12-page guide provides paper saving tips and tools for office workers and managers in business, government, and other organizations.
ANG Newspaper
ANG used a StopWaste grant to purchase reusable plastic pallets that prevent 37 tons of waste and save $46,000 a year.
Recycling Case Studies
StopWaste has helped hundreds of organizations in over 45 different industries lower their operating costs and protect the environment. Learn about a few of our recycling assistance success stories from the case studies below.
What types of environmentally preferable office supplies are available?
Look for rechargeable batteries, water-based and non-toxic highlighters and markers, and 10-100% postconsumer recycled content plastic trash bag liners. Plastic desktop accessories like notepad and pencil holders, trays and organizers can be made with 25-80% postconsumer content. Plastic binders can contain up to 100% postconsumer recycled content, depending on the type of plastic. More companies are producing supplies made from recycled fiber materials so look for fiber-based office supplies with postconsumer recycled content.
Compliance Guide for Businesses
A guide for businesses and institutions explaining how to comply with the Mandatory Recycling Ordinance. Includes tips for success and case study examples.
Tesla Motors, Inc.
Tesla Motors designs and manufactures electric vehicles. At their plant in Fremont they build the Model S, an all electric sedan that seats up to 7 people and was Motor Trend’s 2013 Car of the Year. The car company worked closely with StopWaste’s Use Reusables program to switch to reusable windshield racks, a project that eliminates about 100 tons of cardboard waste a year. Since the new racks hold numerous windshields and can be worked straight from the line, they improve the efficiency of Tesla’s manufacturing process.
VF Outdoor, Inc.
VF Outdoor, a division of VF Corp. that focuses on outdoor and athletic apparel, recently moved three of its leading brands, JanSport, lucy and The North Face, to a new headquarters in Alameda. While moving more than 470 employees, the company avoided using an estimated 11,000 cardboard boxes needed for the move by renting reusable moving crates instead. Comparable in cost to traditional cardboard moving boxes, this solution also required significantly less labor. This commitment to reducing waste is also part of the ongoing operations at the Alameda campus.
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