Connect with BI Zero Waste
About Us
Bainbridge Island Zero Waste’s mission is to reduce the amount of waste produced by our community, from acquisition to disposal. We aim to encourage changes in behavior that ultimately lead to a more sustainable use of resources.
Want to know if you can recycle something?
Want to know which organization might reuse your functional item?
Get the answers on our “Guide to Reusing and/or Recycling Locally” page.
Sustainable Bainbridge created BIZW in 2010. It is managed and run by all volunteers. We encourage you to explore our site, check out news posts and future events, and engage with us if anything strikes your fancy.
Subscribe to our monthly newsletter to keep current on our activities, opportunities for participation and education, and other zero waste news.
We are having a potluck on Sunday, October 6, 1-3 pm at Yeomalt Cabin. Please come and meet new and old friends who share an interest in reducing waste.
Our steering committee consists of Carolyn Hart, Diane Landry (ZW director), Alison Kettering (program speaker liaison), Susan Knell (Terracycle collector), Whitney Lane, Jane Martin (Tableware Lending Library head), and Barbara Ochota (education lead). We encourage you to contact us if you would like to be involved in Zero Waste endeavors.
What We Do and How We Inform
Highlights
Come to the
Zero Waste Potluck!
When?: Sunday, October 6
Time?: 1-3pm
Where?: Yeomalt Cabin, 900 Park Avenue NE
Go here for more details.
Lending Library
Resumes Taking Requests
The Tableware Lending Library has resumed servicing new borrowing requests.
Eco-brick Collection Suspended
V Calvez, the receiver of the eco-bricks, is currently at a crossroads in figuring out if he can continue to receive eco-bricks. He is overflowing with them right now and needs to find more community build projects in which to use them.
Scrap Metal Recycling
Look for the bin pictured below at the BI Senior/Community to recycle small pieces of metal that are not allowed in curbside or transfer station mixed recycling. The BISCC is open Monday-Friday, 9am-4pm. Do not include food or drink cans, as these go with regular recycling.
Click below to hear Zero Waste’s Barbara Ochota popular talk with BISCC’s executive director Reed Price on this collaboration.
Compost All Food!
Get a Yard Waste Cart
If you’re not turning food into compost, you’re missing out on an easy individual way to fight climate change. Try out Bainbridge Disposal‘s new 32-gallon food/yard waste curbside cart, which gets picked up every other week and on the same day as the 96-gallon cart. This smaller version might be a better fit for you.
