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The City of Glendale’s Office of Sustainability, in collaboration with American Green Zone Alliance, will present a free event from 8 am to 12 pm on Thursday, February 23 behind Glendale City Hall, for independent gardeners and landscape companies to learn about the new CORE voucher incentives to buy electric landscaping equipment and test out equipment!![]()
Please share this information with your neighborhood residents who have gardeners that may currently be using gas powered equipment to maintain their yards. Feel free to print out and hand it out to gardeners as you walk the neighborhoods. There are flyers in English, Spanish and Armenian linked in the web post, that you can download and print out. ![]()
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The City of Glendale's Office of Sustainability, in collaboration with American Green Zone Alliance, will present a free event from 8 am to 12 pm on Thursday, February 23 behind Glendale City Hall, fo...
It is critical for Glendale to take serious action to address our part in the global plastic crisis. We are a city of over 200,000 residents. Imagine the impact our reduction of single use plastic and polystyrene waste can have for our local community! Imagine the domino effect this can have on policies in our neighboring cities! Please support the adoption of the Plastic Reduction Ordinance this Tuesday night, January 31 at City Council. ![]()
Fnd out how: gec.eco/plastic-reduction-ordinance ![]()
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Plastic trash flowing into the seas will nearly triple by 2040 without drastic action
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An ambitious plan, two years in the making, might have the solution.
Please help get Glendale City Council to adopt the PLASTIC WASTE REDUCTION ORDINANCE this Tuesday, January 31. ![]()
GEC considers these new rules to be an excellent collection of the best practices from around the state that will help us to finally combat the scourge of plastic pollution in our city. What a difference this could make!![]()
HOW YOU CAN HELP:
- By calling in to the meeting (818) 937-8100 when item 7a is up. You can follow the meeting online here.
- Or by coming to Council chambers at City Hall in person to make a comment. The meeting begins at 6 pm. 613 E. Broadway, 2nd Floor, Glendale, CA 91206
- And/or by emailing the Councilmembers in advance:![]()
Mayor Ardy Kassakhian: AKassakhian@GlendaleCA.gov
Elen Asatryan: EAsatryan@glendaleca.gov
Dan Brotman: DBrotman@Glendaleca.gov
Paula Devine: PDevine@glendaleca.gov
Ara Najarian: ANajarian@glendaleca.gov![]()
Our intention is to be positive, to share a positive vision of the benefits to be had from making these changes for our community and businesses, while also making the point that plastic pollution is a world-wide crisis with myriad costs that we must confront NOW.![]()
We also want the ordinance to have teeth, so there is some mechanism for compliance as a last resort, for those few restaurants out there that may decide to just pay a small fine as the price of doing business. We are requesting the penalties stay the same as they are now for the "Polystyrene and Single-Use Plastic Products" Ordinance for City Facilities and Events, which this ordinance will replace. Both of the new fines proposed would be weak and ineffective. Info on this can be found in a simple chart here: gec.eco/plastic-reduction-ordinance ![]()
PROPOSED PLASTIC WASTE REDUCTION REGULATIONS (Introduced by Councilmember Brotman, 1/10/23):![]()
1.) Prohibition of use, distribution, and sale of expanded polystyrene (EPS) or “foam” foodware, polystyrene coolers, polystyrene packing materials, polystyrene egg cartons, and polystyrene produce, meat and fish trays.![]()
2.) Prohibition of the use of single-use plastic straws, stirrers and utensils for use on- site, or for to-go or delivery meals. (These items must instead be made of non-plastic materials such as paper, wood, pasta, sugar, bamboo. To-go items must be upon request only per “Skip the Stuff” ordinance, previously approved.)![]()
3.) Establishment of compostable/recyclable foodware standards (item must be accepted by City’s recycling or compost collection programs and must be free of intentionally added fluorinated chemicals (PFAS) Note: State law prohibits added PFAS as of Jan. 2023.![]()
4.) Implementation of 25 cent single-use disposable cup charge (proceeds retained by restaurants)![]()
5.) Use of reusable foodware for dining on premises (when not feasible can get a waiver, must then comply with compostable foodware standards. Compostable paper, food wrappers/sleeves/bags and recyclable foil are allowed.)![]()
6.) Restrictions on the use of single use plastic beverage bottles for City of Glendale facilities and events. (Approx. 16.4 million people pass through the San Francisco airport annually, where all beverages are sold in reusable or recyclable aluminum, or glass containers.)![]()
MORE INFORMATION: gec.eco/plastic-reduction-ordinance/
Support the Plastic Reduction Ordinance! - Glendale Environmental Coalition
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Support Glendale's Plastic Reduction Ordinance! Tuesday, January 31 @ 6 PM