Current Honorees
Previous Honorees
2022
Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin
Assemblymember Luz Rivas
2019
Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez
2018
Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi
Senator Bob Wieckowski
2017
Assemblymember Phil Ting
Senator Ben Allen
2016
Assemblymember Richard Bloom
Debbie Raphael SF Environment
2015
Assemblymember Susan Eggman
Senator Mark Leno
2014
Assemblymember Das Williams
Senate President Pro Tempore Kevin de Leon
Senator Wes Chesbro “Lifetime Achievement Award”
2013
Assembly Speaker John Pérez
Senator Loni Hancock
2012
Assemblymember Richard Gordon
Senator Alex Padilla
2011
Assemblymember Bob Blumenfield
Senator Alan Lowenthal
Jim Moose "Recycling Hero"
CalRecycle Acting Director Mark Leary "Recycling Hero"
2010
Assemblymember Nancy Skinner
Senator Mark DeSaulnier
2009
Assemblymember Julia Brownley
California Integrated Waste Management Board
2008
Assemblymember Jared Huffman
Senator Ellen Corbett
2007
Assemblymember Lori Saldaña
Senator Joe Simitian
2006
Assemblymember Paul Koretz
Assemblymember Cindy Montañez
Gary Petersen "Recycling Hero"
2005
Assemblymember Loni Hancock
Senator Wesley Chesbro
State Treasurer Phil Angelides
Secretary of the CalEPA Terry Tamminen
2004
Assemblymember Fran Pavley
Assemblymember Lloyd Levine
Senator Liz Figueroa
Senator Byron Sher "Lifetime Achievement"
”Senator” Kip Lipper "Lifetime Achievement"
2003
Senator Sheila Kuehl
Assemblymember Hanna Beth Jackson
Governor Gray Davis
2002
Senator Gloria Romero
Assemblymember Carole Migden
Former Senator & CIWMB Board Member David Roberti
2001
Senator Tom Torlakson
Rick Best "Service to CAW"
2000
Senator Tom Torlakson
Rick Best "Service to CAW"
1999
Senator John Burton
1998
Assemblymember Howard Wayne
Assemblymember Virginia Strom-Martin
Senator Hilda Solis
Senator Herschel Rosenthal
1997
Assemblymember Kevin Shelley
Senate President Pro Tempore Bill Lockyer
1996
Assemblymember Debra Bowen
Senator Byron Sher
"Legislator of the Decade."