Resources & Educational Articles

Food Waste

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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