Project Description
The Zero Waste Coalition (ZWC) is comprised of over a dozen organizations, both departmental and student-led, focused on waste-related work at UC Berkeley. Since its founding in 2019, ZWC efforts led by the Chair and Vice Chair include: Establishing and supporting the implementation of a Non-Essential Single Use Plastic Elimination Policy by 2030; Establishing and facilitating a Zero Waste Lab of undergraduate student researchers; Collaborating directly with the Student Environmental Resource Center and the Students of Color Environmental Collective (SCEC) to host Earth Justice Month; Integrating environmental justice into the Single Use Plastic Elimination Roadmap; Collaborating directly with CALPIRG, Cal Zero Waste, the Housing and Dining Sustainability Advocates (HADSA); Organizing Move Out programming for Spring 2020.