CAP Action WW-1.2. Continue to implement and enforce the Water Conservation Standards within the Municipal Code via the Prohibition of Wasteful Water Practices Ordinance for households, businesses, industries, and public infrastructure. [Source: 2024 Climate Action Plan]

CAP Action WW-1.1. Continue to implement the City’s Bay-Friendly Water Efficient Landscape ordinance applicable to all land use types to decrease water consumption. [Source: 2024 Climate Action Plan]

CAP Action SW-2.15. Explore funding opportunities to increase the circular food economy. [Source: 2024 Climate Action Plan] 

CAP Action SW-2.14. Based on existing StopWaste waste characterization studies and Litterati litter assessment, increase bans on "problem materials" (i.e., items without means of recycling or recycling markets, such as sale of polystyrene, plastic packaging, straws, plastics #4-7, mixed materials). Enforce the single-use plastic precheckout ban, by January 1, 2025, in alignment with SB 1046. [Source: 2024 Climate Action Plan]

CAP Action SW-2.13. Partner with local organizations, schools, and libraries to establish pop-up repair cafes for commonly broken and easily repaired items. Partner with library to promote reuse by increasing accessibility to shared tools through a tool lending library. [Source: 2024 Climate Action Plan]

CAP Action SW-2.12. Work with local businesses to establish post-consumer recycled content requirements that meet SB 343 recyclability claims as part of their purchasing criteria. [Source: 2024 Climate Action Plan]

CAP Action SW-2.11. Conduct a consumption-based GHG emissions inventory to understand the community’s worst consumption habits and emission reduction potential and provide educational materials on a closed-loop circular economy. [Source: 2024 Climate Action Plan]

CAP Action SW-2.10. Work with StopWaste and the business community to design and promote extended producer responsibility such as take-back programs. [Source: 2024 Climate Action Plan]

CAP Action SW-2.9. Continue to work with StopWaste and haulers to monitor participation in residential recycling programs, create education materials for the community, provide technical assistance to business to implement mandatory recycling, and identify other opportunities and means to promote zero waste efforts. [Source: 2024 Climate Action Plan]

CAP Action SW-2.8. Partner with StopWaste to conduct targeted, multi-lingual, culturally appropriate, and geographically diverse waste prevention educational and technical assistance campaigns based on outcomes of a waste characterization study (WCS). Such as food waste prevention, edible food recovery strategies, proper storage, how to fix clothes/electronics, how to donate, reusable alternatives, effects of over consumption, sustainable consumption habits, buying second hand, buying durable, sharing, repurposing.