Kerry has worked in the City of Alameda's Public Works Department for 17 years, and has been minding Alameda's various trash-related details for the last 13. She received her BA in Sociology from UC Santa Cruz, where she was actually assigned a daily project of hugging a tree for one whole term.
Kerry was charged with designing, implementing, educating, and enforcing Alameda's restrictive foodware ordinance. Kerry has some helpful insights for those who wish to know more details about being on the other side of a ground-breaking foodware policy. Hint: Foam Foodware bans are a breeze, in comparison."
Alameda's Foodware Ordinance: Compliance and Next Steps Alameda's Disposable Food Service Ware Reduction Law has been in enforceable for two years, now.Ê What does foodware compliance look like for the Island City? Alameda has learned a few things about the difficulties in conveying understandable foodware rules to both the food vendors and and public, and has a few stories of foodware enforcement to tell.