by Kriss Perras | Forty four of the 63 Malibu restaurants garnered the Bay Foundation’s annual Clean Bay Restaurant List for environmental achievement. The number of Malibu restaurants that made the list has increased since 2009, when the City joined the Clean Bay Restaurant Certification Program. The percentage now stands at 70-percent, up from original 64-percent. The City touts how this highlights the community’s strong commitment to protecting the environmental health of Malibu's coastline and mountainous regions. Located in Northwest Los Angeles County, Malibu has 21 miles of coastline along the Pacific Ocean with a population of only 12,575. It is a small City in an environmentally significant location.
City of Malibu Touts An Increase In Restaurants On
The 2014 Clean Bay Restaurant List
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by Kriss Perras | Forty four of the 63 Malibu restaurants garnered the Bay Foundation’s annual Clean Bay Restaurant List for environmental achievement. The number of Malibu restaurants that made the list has increased since 2009, when the City joined the Clean Bay Restaurant Certification Program. The percentage now stands at 70-percent, up from original 64-percent. The City touts how this highlights the community’s strong commitment to protecting the environmental health of Malibu's coastline and mountainous regions. Located in Northwest Los Angeles County, Malibu has 21 miles of coastline along the Pacific Ocean with a population of only 12,575. It is a small City in an environmentally significant location.
"The program is an important way to prevent stormwater pollution and urban runoff, which pose a serious threat to the environmental health of the Santa Monica Bay, local water bodies, and the regional watershed, which are a crucial part of the overall ecology of the region," The City of Malibu states in their announcement.
Criteria for the award includes proper labeling of storm drains, preventing polluted discharge to the storm drains, maintaining a recycling program, proper maintenance of grease traps, keeping the property trash-free, keeping trash bins closed and leak-free, not providing customers with polystyrene containers or plastic bags and keeping staff trained on these guidelines.
“The City of Malibu is extremely proud of our restaurants that made the Clean Bay Restaurant List and thanks and congratulates their owners and staff for their efforts to help protect the environment,” said Malibu Mayor Skylar Peak about this community achievement.
Stormwater runoff collects nutrient pollution prior to discharge in receiving waters...As a result of interdependent factors, the amount of nutrient pollution entering our waters has significantly increased over the past 50 years. (read more here: Nutrient Pollution: A Public Drinking Water Risk http://malibu-arts-journal.blogspot.com/... )
When Malibu joined the Bay Foundation's Certification Program, it did so together with the cities of Santa Monica, Redondo Beach, Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, Torrance and Rancho Palos Verdes. The goal of the Clean Bay Restaurant List is to recognize food-service establishments that are working to prevent pollution from their businesses and protect the water quality of local beaches and creeks.
“This terrific program rewards those restaurants by giving them a stamp of approval, and letting customers know which restaurants they can support for being green. The only way we can protect our environment is by the combined efforts of the businesses, community and government agencies,” said the City in their announcement.
The restaurants that meet 100-percent of the criteria are recognized with certificates of appreciation from the City for going above and beyond local stormwater regulations.
A region, county or city too have carbon footprints, and thus also effect climate change, positively or negatively... (Read more here: Hurricane Sandy: Through The Ocean Darkly http://malibu-arts-journal.blogspot.com/... )
To see the complete list of Malibu restaurants that made the Clean Bay Restaurant List, visit http://www.malibucity.org/...
The City urged residents to find out how they can help keep their local beaches clean, safe and beautiful, by visiting the City’s website at www.malibucity.org.
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