How do Bainbridge Island businesses keep their waste down? Read on to find out...
Yes! Magazine
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The managing editor built a raised bed right outside the office windows and supplements the soil with compost from the nearby worm bin, where employees' fruit and vegetable scraps, along with coffee grounds, end up. Fresh salad greens are available to staff most of the year!
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New homes are sought for old computers and other electronics. Otherwise, Total Reclaim recyclers in Seattle is their destination.
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Paper that has already been printed on gets used again if the backside is clear.
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Yes! wanted to reduce even more and asked Zero Waste for a waste audit.
3M Digital Signage
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The office manager diligently rescues "stretchy" plastic film from the trash cans and takes it to the designated recycling receptacles at T & C and Safeway.
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They receive a lot of CPUs and monitors, which come packaged in the dreaded expanded polystyrene (EPS) blocks - the kind with the clingy, electrostaticky pieces that flake off. She stockpiles them until dropping off with a fellow islander who works for CleanScapes, a Seattle waste hauler, that takes them to the sole Puget Sound polystyrene recycler in Renton.
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