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Two fixtures of Santa Cruz County’s environmental scene are set to retire in the next few months: Tim Goncharoff, manager of Santa Cruz County’s Zero Waste programs, will end his tenure on July 16; Katherine O’Dea, executive director of Save Our Shores, will step down at the end of September.
The departure of the two leaders represents a significant changing of the local environmental guard. Together and separately, the longtime environmentalists have led significant policy battles against plastic bags, hotel toiletries and other single-use plastics that have reverberated well beyond Santa Cruz County.
“Their local work shows that you can set state and national policies through the work of this community,” county supervisor Zach Friend wrote in an email. “Much of this work has been replicated across the state and country and many companies have taken the lead from their work to ban single-use plastics or alter practices.”