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CAMPAIGNS
Solving for tomorrow.

Sustainability Campaigns

Explore our range of resources designed to support sustainability efforts in your community. Below, you’ll find educational toolkits, posters, digital content, and flyers, that can be utilized by businesses, schools, and community-based organizations to raise awareness and drive local climate action. 

Campaign Resources for Community Partners

Together we can build a sustainable San Mateo County.

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Compost Quality Improvement Campaign

When contaminants such as plastic, glass, and other items end up in the green bin, the result is contaminated compost that has fragments of glass, plastic, and other substances that are harmful to the environment. 

We’re making compost – let’s make it healthy!

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Bay Area Recycling Outreach Coalition

Founded in 1996, the Bay Area Recycling Outreach Coalition (BayROC) is a collaboration between staff representing over 40 San Francisco Bay Area cities, counties and other public agencies working together on waste reduction and buy-recycled concepts through a variety of media campaigns which promote personal action and behavior change.

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Waste-free Lunches

Be a lunch time hero and pack a waste free lunch! Download a waste-free lunch poster in English and Spanish and help reduce waste at you school.

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Fixit Clinic @ John Daly Library
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Fixit Clinic @ John Daly Library

Fixit Clinics are fun community-based workshops where neighbors, friends, and families work collectively to learn how to repair broken items.

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We’re Making Compost — Let’s Make it Healthy!

Keep All Plastic Out of the Green Bin Everyone in San Mateo County is required to compost all food scraps and yard…
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truck driver unloading pallet of recovered food

Edible Food Recovery Program: Deliver food where it’s…

Getting food to people who need it while also reducing food waste requires many hands. As one food recovery non-profit…
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