The Zero Waste Program awards grant funding to non-profit organizations whose work in source reduction, reuse, recycling, and composting helps San Francisco towards zero waste.
Carolyn Lasar from The SF Market Corporation, a department grant recipient, is holding recovered produce
SCRAP offers free teacher workshops and creative reuse classes.
2024 to 2026 Zero Waste Grant recipients
Agency | Program | Scope | Duration | Amount |
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Agricultural Institute of Marin (AIM) | Plastic-Free San Francisco Farmers Markets | Distribute 20,000 reusable cotton mesh bags to vendors at two farmers markets to eliminate plastic. | 2 years | $67,267 |
Asian Pacific American Community Center (APACC) | Educating Community Ourselves (ECO) Waste Program | Conduct recycling and composting outreach to residents in Sunnydale Housing. | 2 years | $50,030 |
Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco | BGCSF's Zero Waste Project 2023-2024 | Install water refill stations at clubhouses and provide youth-led zero waste trainings to students and staff. | 2 years | $95,807 |
Farming Hope | Food Recovery Program | Recover 20,000 lbs of food per year for the culinary training program to prepare free community meals. | 2 years | $90,855 |
Garden for the Environment | Get Up! Compost Training Program and Public Compost Education | Provide free backyard compost education to San Franciscans and the extensive gardening educator training program, Get Up! | 2 years | $80,000 |
Local Motion | Bike Repair Fix It Clinic | Performs free bicycle repair clinics with community groups and San Francisco Public Library branches. | 2 years | $59,716 |
Replate | Food Recovery Program | Work with 25 food-generating businesses to comply with SB 1383 by providing food donation services. | 2 years | $27,500 |
San Francisco Market Corporation (SF Market) | Food Recovery Program | Recover 1 million pounds of healthy produce annually and direct it to community groups. | 2 years | $125,000 |
SCRAP | Waste Diversion | Recover 500 tons of materials from landfill and provide 600 creative reuse classes and free teacher workshops and giveaways. | 2 years | $97,916 |
UCSF Health | Trashbot | Purchase Trashbot AI robotic waste sorters to reduce refuse contamination at Mission Bay and Mount Zion. | 2 years | $21,625 |
2021 to 2023 Zero Waste Grant recipients
Agency | Program | Scope | Duration | Amount |
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Asian Pacific American Community Center (APACC) | Educating Community Ourselves (ECO) Waste Program | Conducted recycling and composting outreach to residents in Sunnydale Housing. | 2 years | $70,000 |
Bike Hut Foundation | Bike Repair and Reuse Program | Bicycle recycling and job training project that diverted, repaired, and redistributed recycled bikes and parts from San Francisco's landfill stream. | 2 years | $65,000 |
California Product Stewardship Council (CPSC) | Textile Recovery | Rescued approximately 1.3 tons of clothing and textiles from entering San Francisco's landfill stream through a coordinated garment and textile recovery and repair system. | 2.5 years | $120,000 |
Charity Cultural Services | Chinatown Youth Environment Awareness Program | Zero Waste Youth Environmental Awareness (YEA) Program that recovered approximately 150 tons of material from San Francisco's landfill stream. | 2 years | $50,000 |
Farming Hope | Food Recovery Program | Food recovery program that reduced food waste by approximately 20.5 tons by working with local produce companies to rescue cosmetically imperfect produce. | 2 years | $60,000 |
Garden for the Environment (GFE) | Get Up! Compost Training Program and Public Compost Education | Zero Waste Program that offered free residential backyard composting classes, training, and the Gardening Composting Educator Program. | 2 years | $60,000 |
Race to Zero Waste (R20W) | Zero Waste Educational Pop Ups | Zero Waste Station pop-ups that offered educational outreach in pubicly accessible spaces such as parks, beaches, and school grounds. | 2 years | $60,000 |
San Francisco Market Corporation (SF Market) | Food Recovery Program | Zero Waste Program that rescued edible food from entering San Francisco's landfill stream and redistributed it to San Francisco's food insecure. | 2 years | $112,000 |
SF New Deal | Reusable Systems Transition | Provided technical assistance to help small businesses transition from disposables to reusables. | 2 years | $79,000 |
UCSF Sustainability Program | Surgical Supply Recovery Program | Zero Waste surgical supply recovery program that recovered 75 tons of refuse from San Francisco's waste stream. | 3 years | $100,000 |
YMCA of San Francisco | Re-Use Center | YMCA of SF's material Re-Use Center engaged program participants and community members in activities to meaningfully diminish waste in San Francisco through reuse projects and recovered approximately 5 tons of materials from entering San Francisco's landfill stream. | 3 years | $55,000 |