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.
Our steering committee consists of Carolyn Hart, Diane Landry (ZW director), Susan Knell (Terracycle collector), Whitney Lane, Jane Martin (Tableware Lending Library head), Barbara Ochota (education lead) and Anna Ullrich (Reuse/Recycle Guide hawk). 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
Volunteer with the
Rotary Auction Green Team!
It’s not just sales of your donations that make money at the Rotary Auction. It’s the hard work of the Green Team volunteers that keeps many trailer loads of discards (packaging, food, undesirable donations) normally destined for the landfill — at $800 a truckload — from ever existing in the first place. The Green Team repurposes, reuses, rehomes and recycles a lot of what gets unloaded at the curb during donation week. (Read the article on the Green Team in the Bainbridge Review.) Many hands make…if not light…less work. Please join us! Shifts are available July 5 through July 11, 8am-8pm.
Free Repair at the Fix-it Fair
It’s another collaboration between BARN, Sustainable Bainbridge and our fabulous fixer volunteers to keep your treasured appliances, clothing and other items in functional form.
Here’s what you can bring:
- clothing & textiles
- small appliances (including lamps and vacuums)
- jewelry
- small electronics
- small welding and woodworking repairs
- minor bike repairs
You may bring up to two items (clean, please!). Bring the owner’s manual, if possible, and any relevant repair parts.
ZW Supplement
Zero Waste has created a supplemental poster to the Bainbridge Island/Kitsap County recycling poster that highlights alternative destinations for some of the items listed in its “Garbage” section.
#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.
#1 Way to Help Compost
Take off the produce stickers!!!
