Save The Bay Blog

Yesterday was an exciting day for Save The Bay’s multi-year efforts to rid the Bay of trash. San Jose’s City Council voted 9-2 to move forward with an ordinance to ban polystyrene (Styrofoam) food ware. Once implemented, San Jose will be the largest city in the country to ban this creek-clogging, wildlife-choking product! Two years [...]

On the morning of February 9th, I headed down to San Jose to participate in one of the city’s Clean Creeks, Healthy Communities cleanups on Coyote Creek, near Selma Olinder Park.  I knew the area would have trash and that it would be busy morning, but I wasn’t prepared for the reality of this day. [...]

Last year included some tremendous wins for Save The Bay and our team of Wonks.  From Cargill pulling their proposal from the Redwood City planning process, to the successful passage and implementation of bag bans in Alameda County, San Francisco, and nearly a dozen other jurisdictions, it’s been a busy year. As we look toward [...]

Foam foes were celebrating Tuesday night after The Sunnyvale City Council voted unanimously (7 – 0) to move forward with a polystyrene foam (Styrofoam) ban. Community members, including several students from Homestead High School, came out to express their concern about the prevalence of foam take-out containers in local restaurants. Save The Bay was on [...]

As of yesterday, Menlo Park is Styrofoam free! The ordinance, adopted in August 2012, bans the distribution of polystyrene foam (Styrofoam) containers by all food vendors in the city. Click here for more information about the ordinance on the city’s website. The City of Menlo Park now joins a regional effort of over 30 cities [...]