Outreach Through Home Improvement Stores

To outreach the "Neat Neighbors" and Fix-it Foul-ups" as they are thinking about or while actually working on their homes, the Stormwater Program partnered with home improvement stores, hardware stores, paint stores, and garden centers throughout the City of Los Angeles.

Pollution prevention materials were placed in the stores on shelves next to products which contained information about the harmful effects of improperly disposed paints, pesticides and fertilizers, and educated residents on the proper disposal methods of these household hazardous wastes.

The (888) CLEAN-LA hotline and www.LAStormwater.org web site were also provided as a source for additional information. Pollution prevention materials included "shelftalkers", tearpads, tip cards, and posters. The outreach materials were placed in corresponding areas of the stores i.e., paint section, lawn and fertilizer section, etc.

In addition to the placement of outreach materials in the stores, the City also conducted employee staff training sessions at the store. At these training sessions, store staff were educated on proper disposal methods of HHW and became familiar with the materials placed in their stores. Store staff would then become spokepersons for the Stormwater program while educating customers as they were purchasing the items.

This outreach was made to:

84 different hardware stores,
76 paint stores, and
39 lawn and garden stores

In-house training of store employees totalled 11 sessions reaching 151 store personnel

In-house training of store employees (above) enabled staff to become familiar with the pollution prevention materials while educating customers who were buying the products (below).

Hardware Stores	Paint Stores	Lawn & Garden
Home Depot	Painter's Warehouse	Target Stores
OSH	Sinclair Paint Stores	Green Thumb Nursery
Gerald's Paint & Hardware	Frazee Paint & Wallcovering	Mordigan Nurseries
Koontz Hardware	ICI Delux Paint Center	Big KMart Garden Center
Ace Hardware Stores	Dunn-Edwards Paints	Amigo Lawn Mower Shop
LA Hardware	Catalina Paint	M & G Lawnmower Shop
Larchmont Hardware	Prevo Paint Co.	Green Arrow Nursery
True Value Stores	Sherwin-Williams Co.	Frank's Nursery & Florist
Alvarado Paint & Hardware	Shilpark Paint	Plant Phax & Plantasies
New York Hardware Trade	Par Paint	Yamaguchi Bonsai Nursery
Gus Hardware	M G Paints	Hashimoto Nursery
Hanes Paint & Hardware	Master Color Supply	Tabuchi Nursery
Pico Building Supply Co.	Hometown Paint & Wallpaper	Armstrong Garden Center
B & B Hardware	Vista Paint	Eden Nursery
Harbor Hardware	Galindo Paint	C & S Nursery
Kay's Hardware	Brothers Paint Store	J.C Nursery
Indiana Home Supply	Naylor's Paint & Wallcovering	F.K. Nursery
George's Hardware & Garden	Fuller O'Brien Paint Store	Baba's Lawnmower Shop
Lincoln Hardware & Garden	Mark's Paint Store
Sylmar Builders & Hardware	Portola Paints and Glazes
South Shores Hardware & Paint	Sydney Harbour Paint Co.
Do It Best Hardware	Spectra Paint Center
	Circle Paint Corp.
	Crown Paint Inc.
	Painter's Warehouse
	Mann Brothers

Pollution prevention materials were placed on shelves next to the actual products.