70 Hermosa Beach Restaurants Get Star of Approval for Minding Environment

Seventy Hermosa Beach restaurants were named on the Bay Foundation’s annual Clean Bay Restaurant List, highlighting the community’s strong commitment to protecting the environmental health of the local coastline.

• To see the complete list of restaurants in the city of Hermosa Beach that made the Clean Bay Restaurant List for 2014, go here.

The Bay Foundation offers a Clean Bay Restaurant Certification Program to highlight best environmental practices in the industry. The cities of Santa Monica, Malibu, Redondo Beach, Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, Torrance and Rancho Palos Verdes participate.

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.

Criteria include 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 and plastic bags, and keeping staff trained on those guidelines.

The restaurants that meet 100 percent of the criteria are recognized with certificates of appreciation from their cities for going above and beyond local stormwater regulations.

A press release from the city of Malibu contributed to this report.

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