ZERO WASTE
Less waste. More reuse. A cleaner Palisades.
Image by Amanda Iyana Michaels
Our Goal
Our Zero Waste team works to make reducing waste practical and accessible, from helping our community replace single use items with reusable alternatives to keeping litter and debris out of our streets, beaches and environment.
CHOOSE TO REUSE
MAKING REUSE EASIER
Reducing waste shouldn't have to be complicated. Through Choose to Reuse, Resilient Palisades provides practical alternatives to disposable items and helps make reuse part of everyday community life.
FREE REUSABLE BAGS
We provide reusable produce bags to help Palisadians replace single use bags with something they can use again and again.
FREE REUSABLE CUPS & CUTLERY
Hosting a community event? Resilient Palisades has stainless steel cups and cutlery available for free to loan in the Palisades, making it easier to host events without piles of disposable plastic.
Love That We Offer This Service?
Help us keep it going. When you purchase a Resilient Palisades tote or reusable cup, you’re supporting our Zero Waste work and helping us continue to provide reusable cups and cutlery to community events for free.
JOIN THE ANTI-LITTER LEAGUE
A cleaner Palisades takes A.L.L. of us.
The Anti-Litter League brings neighbors together to remove litter and debris from the streets, beaches, gutters and open spaces of Pacific Palisades.
As our community rebuilds, construction and recovery are also leaving behind nails, broken signs, packaging, discarded materials and other debris. A.L.L. of Pali organizes neighborhood cleanups, supports cleanup efforts throughout the community and gives residents an easy way to take action where they live.
COMMIT TO COMPOST
TURNING FOOD SCRAPS INTO A RESOURCE
Food scraps don't belong in a landfill. When organic waste decomposes without oxygen in a landfill, it produces methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. Composting keeps those nutrients in circulation instead, turning food scraps into a resource that can help build healthier soil.
Resilient Palisades launched Commit to Compost in 2022 to make composting easy and accessible for our community. We created a neighborhood collection network where residents could drop off their food scraps for composting, while also helping people learn how to compost at home through workshops, demonstrations and resources on traditional and worm composting.
The program grew to 13 community collection sites across Pacific Palisades, collecting approximately 300 to 500 pounds of food scraps each week. From March 2022 until the Palisades Fire in January 2025, that represents an estimated 44,000 to 74,000 pounds of organic waste kept out of the landfill and returned to the composting cycle.
The Palisades Fire disrupted the neighborhood network and many of the locations that made the program possible. But the idea behind Commit to Compost remains central to our Zero Waste work: make sustainable choices practical, local and easy enough for an entire community to participate.
Interested in composting? Explore our resources for getting started at home and watch for future opportunities as our community rebuilds.
COMMUNITY ACTION & EDUCATION
From community events and education to partnerships and advocacy, our Zero Waste team works to make reducing waste easier across Pacific Palisades.
Reusable LA
Resilient Palisades is pleased to have joined the coalition of organizations supporting ReusableLA which is “working on resolving LA’s plastic pollution issue by championing a reusable culture and empowering other cities to do the same.”
