Choose Reuse Ventura - July 2026

This July, we're challenging Ventura residents to shop smarter, waste less, and connect with local businesses. Choose Reuse Ventura is a month-long community initiative that highlights Green-Certified businesses throughout Ventura and encourages you to get involved!

Here's how it works: Pick up a stamp card. Visit participating businesses, ask & learn about their green practices, and collect stamps. Complete your card and turn it in for swag from the City of Ventura — and revel in the satisfaction of knowing you made a difference.

Get your stamp card at:

• Climate Conversations kickoff at Findings Market (July 1)

• City of Ventura tabling at Downtown Ventura Farmers Market (July 4 & July 18)

• Participating businesses (listed below)

• City of Ventura Environmental Sustainability Office (336 Sanjon Rd, Ventura, CA 93002)

• Download the stamp card (link coming soon!)

Submit your completed stamp:

• City of Ventura Environmental Sustainability Office (336 Sanjon Rd, Ventura, CA 93002)

• Email a photo of your card to the City of Ventura (sustainability@cityofventura.ca.gov) *If you send in your card by email, make sure you plan a time to swing by the City office on Sanjon to grab your goodie bag!

How to get a stamp:

1. Visit participating businesses (listed below) and inquire about their Green Certification. “Hello, I am participating in the Choose Reuse Ventura initiative - how do I get a stamp?” Potential questions to ask:

   • Tell me about the green practices in your business.

   • Why was it important for you to become a green-certified business?

   • What did you have to change within your business to become green-certified?

   • What does a green certification mean?

   • Why is sustainability important to you and your business?

   
   

2. Make a Plastic-Free Pledge! Try your best to eliminate plastic in specific areas of your life this month. These stamps are on the honor system.

Plastic-Free Pledges:

• Avoid single-use plastic packaging

• Target takeaway items (bags, bottles, straws, and cups)

• Go completely "plastic free"

• Bring a reusable cup to the coffee shop

• Use reusable food containers

• Bring my own shopping bag

• Slow down and dine in

• Pack a waste-free lunch

• Purchase clothes with natural fibers

• Pick up litter at the beach (or anywhere!)

• Keep learning about the impact of plastic

• Choose loose-leaf tea and pod-free coffee

• Purchase packaging-free food when possible

• Use shampoo + body wash bars 

• Use solid dish soap and bio-based dish brushes

• Choose laundry and dish powder instead of pods

• Replace your makeup wipes with washable face towels

Participating Businesses:

• The Refill Shoppe

• Red Brick Gallery

• Rêves de Sabine

• STEMbassadors IDEA Center

• Spicetopia

• FINDINGS MARKET

• Plum Gift Boutique

• Folke

• Birkenstock Footprints of Ventura

• Visit Ventura

• Indian Rasoi

• Lovewell Tea & Coffee

• Blue Jasmin Acupuncture, Herbs & Yoga

• Channel Islands Juice Company

This event is in support of the global Plastic-Free July movement, and we're bringing it home to Ventura.