Ditching Disposables Toolkit
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Resources
Reuse for Onsite Dining Library: a comprehensive resource for advocates, schools & businesses, governments, elected officials, and anyone who would like to make disposable-free dining the new normal.
Grant Resources
City Incentive Programs for Reuse (Upstream’s Incentives & Grants Tracker): this is an open-source tracker that focuses on municipal incentive programs for reuse and state/provincial/federal grants that drive source reduction of single-use products and packaging. In this tracker, you’ll find grants related “Reduce” and “Reuse”.
Plastic Free Restaurants: eliminates petroleum-based, single-use plastic and PFAS-containing fiber-based foodware from schools by subsidizing the purchase of reusable replacements.
The following are a few examples of grants to help you in your search or that may be applicable for your district.
- Grants in Alameda County (CA)
- Grants in Dakota County (MN)
- Kitchen Infrastructure and Training Funds (CA)
- USDA Partnerships for Local Agriculture & Nutrition Transformation in Schools (PLANTS)
- CA Department of Education Commercial Dishwasher Grant (The grant application period ended in early April 2024 but this is an example of what other states could be doing to support increased adoption of reusables in K12 schools)