Awards

• 2017 California Resource Recovery Association
  Outstanding "Closing the Loop" Commitment Award

  Santa Cruz County was recently presented the "Closing the Loop" award for their innovative program to ensure that all food service ware is recyclable or compostable.

• 2016 CalRecycle
  Outstanding Policy/Legislative Advancement Award

  Santa Cruz Sentinel Article

  2016 Outstanding Policy/Legislative Advancement Awarded by the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) for the County’s Safe Drug and Sharps Disposal Ordinance. The presentation noted “Santa Cruz County’s ordinance set the standard for those that followed, and demonstrated the practicality of an Extended Producer Responsibility approach for the safe disposal of drug and sharps waste.  Last year alone Santa Cruz County collected more than 27,000 pounds of drugs and more than 10,000 pounds of sharps, dramatically improving health, safety and environmental protection for the citizens of Santa Cruz County and establishing a model that is being adopted, not just across California, but throughout the United States.” Below:CalRecycle Award Ceremony Photo

  

   

• 2016 Legislative Leadership Award

  “For your work in enacting a groundbreaking Safe Drug and Sharps Disposal Ordinance. Your ordinance has set the standard for pharmaceutical takeback programs in California and is being used as a model by other jurisdictions.”
  Awarded by the California Product Stewardship Council (CPSC)