February Chapter Meeting--LA Sanitation Update

Join our Guest Speaker Jennifer Pinkerton, from the Los Angeles Department of Sanitation (LASAN), to hear updates about what LASAN is doing to support our city's zero waste ordinance, plastics reduction, organics recycling, and food rescue goals, as well as LASAN's role in fire recovery with the EPA and Army Corps. There will be lots to learn and plenty of inspiration to reduce waste in our own lives! Register Here.

Jennifer Pinkerton, Environmental Affairs Officer, Los Angeles Department of Sanitation

Jennifer Pinkerton has worked in the field of recycling and solid waste for 30 years and is an authority on how cities are currently managing waste. She previously worked with Californians Against Waste and has now been with LA Sanitation for the past decade. During her time at LASAN, Pinkerton wrote the City of LA's plastic pollution policy report and drafted the plastic straws and foodware "accessories upon request" ordinance, expanded the single-use plastic bag ban, enacted the citywide styrofoam ban and is now focused on LA's zero waste ordinance.

Register here for the Zoom link.