June 22, 2020
For the past few months, the Sustainable Bainbridge board and program managers, assisted handily by web designer Cinnamon Harrington of Interlock Solutions, have been hard at work creating a brand new Sustainable Bainbridge website! We've been transferring content from the old site while creating new pages and posts. Our new site will let us connect with you in a more visual manner and keep you better informed about news and upcoming events. Please click the button below to have a look.
Good Listening
Nothing Wasted is a weekly podcast that focuses on a different topic for each weekly 50-minute interview. The material runs the gamut, from Mr. Trash Wheel in the Baltimore Harbor to the clothing industry with The Conscious Closet author Elizabeth Cline to the emerging interest in "upcycled" food. Each recording is accompanied by transcribed excerpts that give a taste for the conversation to follow. Check it out!
A Briefer on Bags
Helpline House appreciates the donations of paper grocery bags for packing the increased amount of food they have been giving out. Before bringing your bags or dropping off in the designated Helpline spot at the grocery store, please heed these few reminders that will save the staff and volunteers a lot of time and energy:

  • Empty bags of receipts
  • Recycle dirty and/or ripped bags
  • Double bag the bags (one inside the other)
  • At Helpline, drop off between 9-11:30am (food bank client drive-thru happens in the afternoons)
The Trashion Show
Although this year's Zero Waste Trashion Show was canceled, we may still have a downtown display of completed outfits later in the summer. Stay tuned.

In the meantime, enjoy this supplementary article to the spring issue of the Salish Magazine. Written by Deb Rudnick, an integral member of the BI Zero Waste community, including the Trashion steering committee, it features photos from the very first Trashion Show on Bainbridge (at Eagle Harbor Church) and provides the context for the origins of the show.
You Can Prevent Garbage Fires
In July 2015, Bremerton firefighters responded to a blaze at the Olympic View Transfer Station, where our garbage is hauled by Bainbridge Disposal. Just look at how quickly the fire took hold.

Never put anything flammable or ignitable in your trash or recycling. Read Kitsap County Solid Waste's guidelines on how to properly dispose of the following seven items that are potential fire starters in your home trash can, the garbage truck and the transfer station:

  • fireworks
  • charcoal, briquettes and ashes
  • batteries
  • propane and butane tanks
  • pool chemicals
  • hazardous household chemicals
  • flares
Newsletter editor: Diane Landry, BI Zero Waste (Volunteer) Director
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