Resources & Educational Articles

Food Waste

• Center for Agriculture and Food Systems
  Gleaning Resource Map

• Forbes
  Restaurants Lose $162 Billion To Food Waste, New Report Finds

• United Nations (Available in Spanish)
  Turning Food Waste Prevention into a Scalable Climate Solution

• Nature (Science Journal)

  State-level policies alone are insufficient to meet the federal food waste reduction goal in the United States

• Nature (Science Journal)

  Assessing the climate change mitigation potential from food waste composting

• Science Direct (Journal)

  Household landfill diversion and the impact on methane emissions

• CNN Health

• Washington Post (Available in Spanish)

  The case for eating frozen fruits and vegetables

• New York Times

  Do Food Expiration Dates Really Matter?

• World Economic Forum

  How Japan is tackling household food waste

• UN (Available in Spanish)

  5 Fact About Food Waste and Hunger

• Mill Valley Refuse Website (Available in Spanish)

  10 Ways to Reduce Food Waste

Composting

• Cal Recycle (Available in Spanish)
  Composting Awareness Week

• Cal Recycle (in Spanish)
  California convierte los restos de comida en medidas contra el cambio climático para Semana Internacional de Concientización sobre el Compost

• Local News Matters
  Oakland launches first free compost hub, giving residents unlimited compost

• Stopwaste (Available in Spanish)
  Worm Composting (Vermicomposting) Guide

• CalRecycle
  Healthy Soils Week

• EPA

  How to Create and Maintain an Indoor Worm Composting Bin

• Ecology Center East Bay Resources PDF (shows where to buy worms and bin supplies)

• StopWaste (Available in Spanish)

  Backyard Composting (resource guide)

• Marin Sanitary Service (Available in Spanish)

  Marin Curbside Composting Guide

• National Geographic

• How to compost—and why it’s good for the environment

• Hunter College New York Food Policy Center

  Why Compost? 6 Benefits to Diverting Your Food Scraps from the Landfill

• US EPA

  Composting at Home

• U.S. Dept. of Agriculture

  Composting

Recycling

• Children’s Museum of Sonoma County (Available in Spanish)
  The Ultimate Guide to Recycling for Kids!

• National Inistitute of Environmental Health Sciences: Kids Environment Kids Health
  Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

• CalRecycle
  SB 54 Covered Material Category List January 2026 Update

• SFGate
  New report lays out just how bad California’s recycling system is

• EPA

  Recycling Basics and Benefits

• Mill Valley Refuse (Available in Spanish)

  https://www.millvalleyrefuse.com/what-goes-where-mvrs/

• NPR

  Plastics: What’s recyclable, what becomes trash — and why

• Marin Sanitary Service (Available in Spanish)

  Where Does it Go, Joe?

• New York Times (Available in Spanish)

  Can Plastic Recycling Ever Really Work?

Climate Change

• ABC News
  Earth Day 2026: What you can do in your community to promote conservation, climate action

• NOAA
  Global Climate Report

• Global Meteorological Organization (Available in Spanish)
  Earth’s climate swings increasingly out of balance

• Climate gov. (Available in Spanish)

  Climate Change: Global Temperature

• National Center for Environmental Information

  Annual 2024 Global Climate Report

• US EPA

  Climate Change Indicators in the United States

• IPCC Reports (Available in Spanish)

  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

• United Nations

  Climate change: World likely to breach 1.5°C limit in next five years

• NPR

  Businesses face 'chaos' as EPA aims to repeal its authority over climate pollution

• CNN

  A potent planet-warming gas is seeping out of US landfills at rates higher than previously thought, scientists say

Laws

• California Air Resources Board (Available in Spanish)
  CARB adopts updates to California’s Cap-and Invest Program to support affordability and align with climate goals

• KQED
  Amid Opposition, California Regulators Approve Major Changes To Cap-And-Trade Program

• Cal Recycle
  California approves new plastic and packaging rules that put consumers first

• Cal Recycle (Available in Spanish)
  Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act

• San Francisco Environment Department (Available in Spanish)

  State Law SB 1383: Food recovery requirements

• EPA

  EPA Launches the Largest Deregulatory Actions in U.S. History with Proposal to Rescind Obama-Era Endangerment Finding

• CalRecycle (Available in Spanish)

  California’s Climate Progress on SB 1383

• Nature

  Plastics pollution is surging — the planned UN treaty to curb it must be ambitious

• World Economic Forum

  Global plastics treaty talks collapse, and other nature and climate news

• CNN (Available in Spanish)

  Global plastic treaty talks end in failure as countries remain bitterly divided over how to tackle the crisis

• US State Department (Media Release)

  Outcomes of the Resumed Fifth Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5.2) to Develop a New Legally Binding Instrument on Plastic Pollution

• Congress.gov

  H.R.4109 - Recycling and Composting Accountability Act