Presentations
Teen Commission Meeting
February 14, 2024
Presentations
Item 3
Receive a Presentation on
Sustainability and
Environmental Programs in
Cupertino
Environmental
Programs and
Sustainability
Division
Stormwater Pollution
Prevention
Waste Reduction and
Recycling
Climate Action
Ursula Syrova
Environmental Programs & Sustainability Division
●Division of Public Works
●Environmental Compliance
●Water Board Regs
●CalRecycle Regs
●Local Ordinances
●Climate Action Plan
Stormwater Pollution Prevention
●Only rain down the storm
drain!
●Municipal Regional Permit
●Prevent, Respond, Report
●If you see something, let us
know!
●408-777-3354 workday
●408-299-2311
evening/weekend
Waste Reduction and Recycling
●Cupertino sorts thing
out!
●State Regulations:
●Recycling
●Organics
●New legislation
●Packaging
●Cupertino.org/nowaste
How’s your sorting?
●Take our little online quiz!
Cupertino sorts!
Remember:
Keep hazardous
items out of the trash:
Compost at home and at the curb
Cupertino.org/compost
Above and Beyond: Ban on Single-Use Plastic
Foodware
●New ordinance went into effect in Sept. 2023
●Cupertino.org/foodware
●See plastic foodware? Let us know!
Cupertino.org/311 (“Foodware Concern”)
September 2023
Cupertino.org/foodware
Let’s solve the boba challenge:
●Want to try a BYO boba cup
and report back to us?
●I need a few determined
volunteers!?
Reusables to go?
●Check out Sunnyvale’s
Okapi pilot to try
reusable glass and
metal cups! Borrow,
return, repeat….
Sustainability –we have a plan
●Council adopted Climate Action
Plan 2.0 in August 2022
●Cupertino.org/climateaction
What are the Climate Action Plan 2.0 goals?
●Carbon neutrality in City-owned facilities and ops by 2030;
●Reduce community-wide emissions by 50% below 2010
levels by 2030;
●Community-wide carbon neutrality no later than 2040 (five
years earlier than the state target);
●Achieve negative net carbon emissions after 2045;
●Zero Waste Community by 2035;
●Update the CAP with the guiding principles of equity,
innovation, urgency and flexibility, resilience, and
adaptation.
How do we achieve the goals?
Measures & Actions
●Cleaning the Air (Renewable Energy & Electrification)
●Connection Communities (Transportation, Land Use)
●Getting to Zero Waste
●Working with Nature
●Adaptation & Resilience
How do the Actions Happen?
●Structural Change: Ordinances, pilot
programs, requirements
●Studies & Plans: Feasibility studies, other
investigative work
●Funding: Financing, grants
●Equity:Make sure to consider cost burdens
and impacts
●Engagement: Outreach, education, incentives
●Partnerships: Join forces with other organizations,
other public agencies, or even private-sector
partners
Some items we’re working on now:
●Public engagement for electrifying
existing buildings, e.g.reducing gas
appliances for “decarbonization”
●Enabling more EV chargers, planning
to electrify our fleet
●Understanding our own energy use to
figure out where we can improve
Help us help the environment:
●If you see something going in a drain:
●408-777-3354 workday
●408-299-2311 evening/weekend
●Non-compliant foodware?
●Cupertino.org/311
Help yourself to help the environment:
●Sort properly: especially those food scraps!
●Avoid food waste: bayarearecycling.org/stop-food-waste
●BYO boba cups: want one to try out?
●Check out electrification rebates:
svcleanenergy.org/home-rebates/
●Save water, know about our water:
valleywater.org/learningcenter
●Cook: Celebrity chef induction cooktop demo 4/23/2024
●Lower GHG transportation: try getting around with less
●SVCE?: Check your energy bill
Help yourself to help the environment:
●Check out a DIY Home Energy
Saving Toolkit from the Library
●Things you can keep:
●LED bulbs
●Weather stripping
●Low-flow showerhead
●Water leak detections tabs
●Things to use &return:
●Kill-A-Watt meter
●Thermal leak detector
Questions now or later?
●Cupertino.org/climateaction
●Cupertino.org/nowaste
●Cupertino.org/foodware
●Cupertino.org/HHW
●Enivronmental@cupertino.gov
●UrsulaS@cupertino.gov