Volunteer Opportunities
In 2018, Zero Waste Bainbridge Island volunteers received the Nonprofit of the Year award from the Washington State Recycling Association. Our work depends on your help. Please read on to find out how you can become involved in our efforts. If you have questions and/or are interested in anything you see below, please contact Zero Waste director Diane Landry.
Tableware Lending Library
The Lending Library serves 270 individual and organizational events a year. We need more librarians! At first, you may volunteer “behind-the-scenes,” helping with inventory and assembling/putting back items for orders. Then, as you get familiar with the library and its operation, you may move into a “front-facing” role of librarian, filling in email orders and arranging times to meet borrowers. Currently we have only three “front-facing” librarians and hope to groom others. Handy attributes for helping and possibly becoming a librarian:
- attention to detail
- free time and flexibility
- enthusiasm for reuse and supporting community events to happen in a greener way
Metal Sorting
Show up at the BI Senior & Community Center any 2nd or 4th Saturday from 11-noon to sort with a magnet the aluminum and steel odds and ends that people have dropped off for recycling. Questions? Contact Barbara Ochota.
Sorting Station Ambassador
Help festival guests decide in which container (recycling, compost or landfill) to toss their discards.
2026 events at which Zero Waste will help with sorting stations:
- Mochi Tsuki – January 10
- Chilly Hilly – February 22
- Pride Fest – June 20
- National Night Out – August 4
Rotary Green Team
Sustainable Bainbridge collaborates with the Rotary Club of Bainbridge Island to offer up a Rotary Green Team (GT), whose goal is have “the biggest yard sale in the Pacific Northwest” create the least amount of trash as possible. Over time we have created the following GT divisions to achieve this goal:
- Recycling Rovers
- Cardboard Cut-ups
- Green Desk Gurus
- Lawn of Opportunity Livewires
- Mealtime Minders
Volunteers are needed July 5-July 11. Go here for a description of each division, then sign up and join our team!