Zero Waste Forum

The 2025 Zero Waste Week & Forum

This year's Zero Waste Week & Forum took place in Hollywood, Florida from March 30 to April 3rd, 2025.

The event included a number of activities including a sustainability tour, beach cleanup, TRUE workshop, and the main discussion days of the Forum, which took place at the Anne Kolb Nature Center on April 1st and 2nd.

Check out the Zero Waste Forum website at www.zerowasteforum.org for more information.

Thank you to Michael Karapetian of EARTHDAY.ORG and Lael Giebel of KnowBe4 for their re-caps of their Forum experiences!

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!

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!

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.

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!