Yesterday, Deb Rudnick, an active Zero Waste member, was presented with a 2021 Kitsap County Earth Day award. In addition to helping at the Styrofoam collections and 4th of July discard stations, Deb is always a great sounding board for ideas, especially from a scientific point of view. She is also a member of the Bainbridge school district's waste management team, heads up the PTO sustainability leaders, and serves as co-chair of the Rotary Auction green team. She helped co-found the BI Beach Cleanup and Earth Month/Celebrate Trees! During Covid, she created #TrashTuesdays that encouraged people to go out once a week to pick up and record litter.

In non-landfill diversion roles, Deb has chaired the BI Watershed Council for 16 years and was one of the primary authors on the recently completed Climate Change Action Plan, which was adopted by the city last November. She also participates in weed pulls and mussel monitoring, has served on the Land Trust board and helped plan the annual BI environmental conference.

Thank you, Deb, for serving our community so thoroughly and thoughtfully lo these many years!

TONIGHT is the Climate & Energy Forum's presentation, "Carbon Footprint of Food Waste." Tune in from 5-6:30pm to hear from experts on the national, state and local levels about how we can cut down on food waste before and after it hits our plates. There will be plenty of time for questions.

Zero Waste offers some helpful resources to stop food waste in its Guide to Reusing/Recycling Locally.

The Story of Stuff produces lots of great animated videos. Their most recent release, on Earth Day, is The Story of Plastic. In just four minutes, it captures the essence of the plastic packaging problem.

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