Wondering where the Zero Waste compost and recycling stations are? Once the hot food vendors return and people hang around and dispose of their service ware onsite, the ZW farmers' market Green Team will be back in action. If you're interested in joining this team, please email
Zero Waste.
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In the meantime, some of the farm booths will take back certain plant pots and other items for reuse.
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Persephone Farms
- Plant pots - 4" square type
- Paper grocery bags - the large size, broken handles okay. Rebecca folds down the top to make a secure carrier for starts purchases.
- Green paper molded or plastic berry baskets - for her berries
- Certain plastic bags - 1) The bags she sells produce in, 2) Produce bags from the store or c) Bread bags IF all crumbs have been shaken out thoroughly. Rebecca puts the bouquets she sells in them.
- Rubber bands - She wraps around the bouquet stems.
- Quart-sized #5 plastic (PP) containers - Clean! Clear or white. NO LIDS. Rebecca (pictured) puts edible flowers in them that she sells to restaurants.
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Butler Farms
- Plant pots - 4" square, 1 & 2 gallon
- Paper egg cartons
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Reuse for Quart Glass Jars
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Marit Krueger is in need of empty jars - pasta or quart-sized - for her flower stand. You can drop them off in the recycle bin under her stand, which is off Madison Av N, almost directly across from the main entrance to the Ted Olsen Nature Preserve.
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Climate and Energy Forum:
How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
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According to
one study
, the world cut its daily carbon dioxide emissions by 17% at the peak of the pandemic shutdown last month.
Zoom into an event presented by the Climate & Energy Forum to
learn about two interactive tools, EN-ROADS and CoolClimate Calculator, that will help you reduce your carbon footprint, Covid or not.
TOMORROW
Thursday,
May 21
4:00 – 5:30 pm
Featured speakers:
Ted Larson Freeman, Citizens Climate Lobby
Michael Cox, Climate Action Bainbridge
Go
here
for more information.
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When food scraps are sent to landfills, those precious nutrients are wasted, starving our soils from the necessary organic material needed to be productive and healthy.
By composting, community members and businesses can close the nutrient loop by returning those nutrients back into the soil to grow more healthy food!
To try your own hand at it, check out the Institute for Local Self-Reliance's
great guide
for understanding and beginning home composting.
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To keep
all
food scraps out of the landfill, where they generate methane, a potent greenhouse gas, you can supplement your home compost pile with Bainbridge Disposal's
yard waste curbside cart service.
Any food, including what you might avoid putting in home compost, like meat, dairy and baked goods, can go in this yard waste bin, as well as shredded paper, napkins, paper towels and greasy pizza boxes. (NEVER RECYCLE any of these paper items.)
Bainbridge Disposal yard waste is trucked to a commercial composting facility, North Mason Fiber, located 40 miles away in Belfair. Currently, there is a
company
hoping to open a compost facility on Bainbridge in order to keep the composting process local and the BD trucks from having to haul off-island. Zero Waste supports the idea of scaling up composting island-wide and having a facility that can process all our organics.
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