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Food Loss and Food Waste

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Food Loss and Food Waste
Written by Cydney Devine-Jones and Alishba Shabir, Youth Program Assistants Food loss and food waste are rapidly growing issues that affect our environmental, humanitarian, and community concerns. The environmental problems of producing and serving food that no one consumes is a very large global-scale issue. A considerable amount of energy and resources are used to… Read more »

Shop Sustainably, Bulk & Refill Shops in the East Bay

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Shop Sustainably, Bulk & Refill Shops in the East Bay
As we celebrate Earth Day this month, we also want to highlight and reintroduce sustainable practices. Since the start of the pandemic, disposables have made their way into our lives through increased online shopping, the inability to use reusables in grocery stores, and from personal protective equipment purchases. Now, a year into the pandemic, there… Read more »

Cardboard Collection Conundrum? Practice Proper Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling

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Cardboard Collection Conundrum? Practice Proper Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling
If you are like many of us, at home during this pandemic, you have increased your online purchasing, and some of those purchases come packaged in cardboard. In Berkeley, residential collection of used paper and cardboard is offered by the City of Berkeley through a contract with the Ecology Center. The Ecology Center services single-family… Read more »

#5 Facts You May Not Have Known About Recycling

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#5 Facts You May Not Have Known About Recycling
Happy Global Recycling Day (3/18)! The Ecology Center was founded in 1969 by community members and grassroots activists to provide curbside recycling services to the residents of Berkeley to help divert waste from landfills. As one of the first successful curbside recycling programs in the country, the Ecology Center has helped inspire the creation and… Read more »