About Us
Zero Waste Bainbridge Island’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 ZWBI 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.
Meet our steering committee, all of whom, in addition to their titles, are worker bees:
Diane Landry – Director, webmaster, newsletter editor, event discard management lead
Jane Martin – Tableware Lending Library lead, signmaker
Barbara Ochota – Metal recycling lead, education outreach lead
Susan Knell – Zero Waste Facebook moderator, Terracycle lead
Anna Ullrich – Reuse/Recycle Guide editor
Carolyn Hart – Bookkeeper
Whitney Lane – Sage
Georgia Zwartjes – Artistic lead
Kim Smith – Analyst
We encourage you to contact us if you would like to be involved in Zero Waste endeavors.
Connect with Zero Waste BI
What We Do and How We Inform
Reuse and Recycling Information
Reuse/Recycle Guide ~ Recycling Quiz ~ Reduce Tips ~ Holiday Waste ~ Plastics Pledge
Tableware Lending Library
Borrow tableware for your next private or organizational event.
Event Assistance
Help us manage discard stations at Bainbridge Island community celebrations. Learn how to set up your own and borrow our supplies.
Archived Reports
Monthly newsletters ~ Year-end reports ~ Past campaigns
Get Involved
We are an ALL-VOLUNTEER organization. Find out how you can help.
Highlights
ZW Hosts a Movie Screening!
On Sunday, September 20, 12-2pm, at the Historic Lynwood Theatre, Zero Waste hosts a screening of The Plastic Detox, a new, eye-opening, and ultimately uplifting documentary that reveals the startling effects plastics and toxic chemicals are having on our bodies and health. Learn how you might lower their presence in your body in a relatively short period of time through simple changes in lifestyle. The film follows five couples with unexplained infertility as they “detox” from plastic for three months to see if it changes their overall health and fertility.
Guest panel Q&A follows. Two free raffles!
Don’t Throw It Out — Get It Fixed!
The last fix-it fair of this year will be Saturday, September 19, 10-1 (arrive by 12:30) at BARN.
Volunteer fixers will try to repair your item. Please bring in clean and with any replacement parts.
- clothing & textiles
- small appliances (including lamps and vacuums)
- jewelry
- small electronics
- small welding and woodworking repairs
#1 Way to Help Compost
Take off the produce stickers!!!
#1 Way to Help Recycling
Put your recyclables in your curbside bin LOOSE. The same goes for the transfer station. Recyclables bundled in plastic bags do not get opened; they are automatically landfilled.
