UPCOMING EVENTS
Zero Waste Station Pop-ups – a perfect volunteering opportunity!
Race to Zero Waste is thrilled to feature new sites for Zero Waste Station pop-ups in the San Francisco Bay Area! Look at our dates below and on social media. We are actively fundraising and building partnerships to host these ZW Stations on a monthly basis. If you’d like to learn more or feature our program in your neighborhood, park, or school ground please reach out at [email protected]. We’d love to hear from you if you’re interested in volunteering! To express your interest, please fill out this form. October is the end of our public events season! Look for us at some winter community events and beach cleanups! Learn how you can volunteer with us or join us as a Zero Waste Trainee!
September 2024 events:
Sept 5 – Autos of Alamo Festival
Sept 7-8 – Castro Valley Fall Festival
Sept 14 – Dublin Splatter
Sept 21-22 – Lafayette Art & Wine Festival
Sept 22 – Alameda Blues, Brews & BBQ
Sept 28 – Moraga Pear & Wine Festival
We’d love to hear from you if you’re interested in volunteering! To express your interest, please fill out this form.
Dolores Park Zero Waste Station Pop-ups – every weekend and major holiday – May through October!
Race to Zero Waste provides public zero waste education at our signature Zero Waste Station Pop-ups in Dolores Park, San Francisco in collaboration with the Love Dolores Project. Each Saturday, Sunday, and on major holidays, R20W provides education, quality control, and hauling for this zero waste project. R20W encourages reuse, recycling, and composting as waste diversion measures, guiding and assisting park-goers with appropriate waste sorting, in addition to informing park-goers on source reduction measures (reduce waste in the first place!). We have implemented campaigns such as #Ditch6 to reduce the use of hard-to-recycle number six plastics, and our annual #ZeroWasteActionMonth campaign to try something new in the zero waste movement. We welcome volunteers for these events, please fill out this form if you’re interested!
PAST EVENTS
Zero Waste Forum – April 3-6, 2024
Race to Zero Waste was pleased to host the #ZeroWasteForum in San Francisco, CA at Futures Without Violence. We had over 100 registrants and enjoyed activities and educational Zero Waste Sessions, along with hosting ZWIA’s 12th International Dialogue. International speakers included Rodrigo Sabatini from the Instituto Lixo Zero Brasil, Jamie Kaminski of Zero Waste Canada, Julia Markhel from Let’s Do It, Ukraine, and Ika Akmala from Dompet Dhuafa – Indonesia. See www.zerowasteforum.org for more information about all of our speakers and activities.
Thank you to our sponsors for contributing to the success of this event! Special thanks to our presenting sponsor, Bay Area Bin Support.
We look forward to the 2025 Zero Waste Forum, which we will be hosting in South Florida!
Zero Waste Fest, 2023
Special thank you to Bay Area Bin Support, our Presenting Sponsor, for their generous support!
The Resource Fair at Zero Waste Fest saw the participation of 12 incredible environmental organizations. Attendees made a real effort to avoid single-use waste by bringing their own cups and bottles. The shoe donation drive, clothing swap, and upcycled t-shirt printing helped divert over 350 pounds of shoes and textiles from the landfill!
If you missed the event and would like to support Race to Zero Waste programming, you can still donate here.
We look forward to seeing you in 2024 for the next FUNdraiser!
Zero Waste Month 2023
Love Your Neighbor(hood) Beach Cleanup and Donation Drive! May 22, 2022
Thanks to everyone who joined the morning beach cleanup as part of our Love Your Neighbor(hood) program on May 22 from 9-11am! We hosted a Zero Waste Station near Stairwell 4 at The Great Highway & Balboa St, and across from Beach Chalet.
BEACH CLEANUP
R20W was joined by Sea Hugger to talk about reducing waste; SF Conservation Corps to talk about the new BottleBank Program; and cleanup champions from Refuse Refuse SF and Together SF contributed as well!
Together SF provided cleanup tools and supplies. Beach cleanup waste was collected and sorted at the R20W Zero Waste Station so that we could divert as much waste from landfill as possible!
DONATION DRIVE
Donated items benefited community organization Project Homeless Connect.
AFTER-PARTY
Park Chalet hosted our wonderful volunteers for a fun little after-party!
Wild and Scenic Film Festival On Tour – March 16-23 2022
Race to Zero Waste presented our annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival On Tour fundraiser! This year’s film fest featured a hybrid model that included some in-person activities at Park Chalet in San Francisco, as well as the virtual live screening with chat box and raffle. Films included Spanish subtitles and a special presentation in Spain!
Through the Wild and Scenic Film Festival On Tour, our goal is to galvanize activism and motivate viewers to become more involved in environmental efforts in our local communities. This fundraiser connects conservation with people through art, grassroots activism, and community involvement. With each short film, you will be inspired to action through heartfelt messages from diverse communities working to care for the nature around them. We hope you will be empowered to show how you Love Your Neighbor(hood), as well!
2022 Wild & Scenic Film Festival On Tour Sponsors and Hosts:
Interested in sponsoring Race to Zero Waste? See our sponsorship page for more details.
Race to Zero Waste would like to say THANK YOU to all our volunteers, sponsors, donors, and attendees for making our first Wild & Scenic Film Fest a success in 2020! We had almost 100 attendees, a number of raffle winners, and many new subscribers. With over $3,000 raised, the money has been used to expand our Zero Waste Station Program in San Francisco and feature reuse bins at our existing stations. Thank you for your continued support! 2022 Fundraiser numbers coming soon!
9th Annual Zero Waste Symposium – February 2022
Race to Zero Waste is proud to be a Friend of Zero Waste San Diego in the presentation of the 9th Annual Zero Waste Symposium.
This year’s virtual symposium will concentrate on Reuse, Repair and Repurpose. Our focus will be to explore the current and future state of the “R’s” that are being neglected (Reuse and Repair). This year we would show policies and programs that recover edible food, reuse minded businesses, repairable products, and organic collection and recovery. Focusing on backyard and community programs.
Come join the conversation!
This event will be held virtually on Tuesday, February 8, 2022 from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm PST via Zoom.
Zero Waste Action Month – October 2021
During Zero Waste Action Month, we turn the Race to Zero Waste into a SPRINT!
We invite you to participate by making an extra effort toward zero waste! Learn about and try something new and share on social media! We will also be highlighting expert voices and advocacy groups that are advancing the zero waste mission, so be sure to follow along!
Share your actions using hashtags #ZeroWasteActionMonth and #SprinttoZeroWaste. Be sure to tag us, too, @RacetoZeroWaste! You can share anything related to zero waste action (see our blog posts for ideas!), or you can follow our weekly themes. The first week is all about textiles! You can show off your favorite second-hand buy, something you made or repaired, a cool way to recycle or upcycle clothes, or any other idea you can come up with!
Watch the #ZeroWasteActionMonth Kick-off video here!
Halloween cleanup event & donation drive for HealthRIGHT360
We celebrated the last day of #ZeroWasteActionMonth on Halloween with our favorite costumes and fought the SpooOOooky litter that’s haunting Haight Street! We went out for a friendly neighborhood cleanup and donation drive alongside our partners Refuse Refuse SF, Value Culture, TogetherSF, Shine On SF, and SF Dept of Public Works!
Keep an eye out for the next Love Your Neighbor(hood) event!
R20W CEO Teresa Bradley spoke at the Zero Waste Cities International Congress
This event was held from June 22-24, 2021.
Hosted by: Cidades Lixo Zero
A technical, interactive and educational experience on the treatment and disposal of waste in cities. Come and be an agent of global change!
People from all over the world will be able to follow this important step towards the implementation of Zero Waste.
Love Your Neighbor(hood) is a periodic campaign led by Race to Zero Waste that promotes zero waste and environmental justice through community involvement.
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