Zero Waste is pleased to be bringing the film, The Plastic Detox, to the Historic Lynwood Theatre on Sunday, September 20, 12-2pm.

The Plastic Detox is a new, eye-opening, and ultimately uplifting documentary that reveals the startling effects plastics and toxic chemicals are having on our bodies and health. Learn how you might lower their presence in your body in a relatively short period of time through simple changes in lifestyle. The film follows five couples with unexplained infertility as they “detox” from plastic for three months to see if it changes their overall health and fertility.

Following the 90-minute film, Drs. Shirlee Tan and Elinor Fanning will hold a Q&A with the audience. You may submit any questions in advance to Zero Waste.

There will also be an optional, on-site raffle for a basket of plastic-free home products donated by Town & Country Market.

To find out more about plastics in our world and bodies, consider auditing online the 7-week Beyond Plastic Pollution course taught by Beyond Plastics' founder Judith Enck.

A semi-annual offering through Bennington College, this fall's class starts September 9. Find more info here. If you know of a high school student who might be interested in auditing, scholarships are available from Zero Waste. If you yourself are interested and require a scholarship, please also contact us.

The PBS news show, Horizons, just aired a half-hour delve into recycling with Judith Enck and another expert, Meredith Danberg-Ficarelli. Host William Brangham asks them a lot of questions that I'm sure have been on your mind about the world of recycling.

From time to time we have Zero Waste meetings for the general public. Their purpose is to bring reuse/recycle-curious people together to share experiences and ask questions. Sometimes we have someone give a brief presentation about a local waste-reducing project (e.g., Flashdrive). If you have a suggestion, please email Zero Waste.

The next meet-up is Monday, August 31, 5-6:00pm, at the Marge Williams Center, 221 Winslow Way West.

Egg Cartons

If you have any clean egg cartons, Tilthy Rich Farm will reuse them! Just drop them off in the box on their front porch at 8220 Quail Hill Rd.

Kids' Clothing & School Supplies

The ReUse Depot will have its last booth at the Park District's Summer Concert series next Wednesday, August 26, at Battle Point Park. Between 6-7pm, you can drop off...


• good children's clothing (no stains or tears)
• children's shoes in good condition
• new or gently used school supplies (lined paper and backpacks have been popular)

Musical Instruments

Flashdrive is collecting musical instruments in good working condition for the Bremerton Music Discovery Center on Thursday, August 27. Go here for more details.

Tools, etc.

The ReUse Depot, currently an initiative of Sustainable Bainbridge, but soon to be its own nonprofit, has begun a donation drive to fill the shelves of its Library of Things. They are looking for high-quality, durable items in excellent working condition, including tools, recreational equipment, toys, entertaining supplies, and other household goods.

Any clothing



The Masonic Lodge, located across from Bainbridge High School, has begun hosting the Northwest Center's big blue bins. What started as one bin quickly grew to three, as donations have been plentiful.

Drop off your bagged clothes, shoes or textiles here, or if you're on the north end, at the Jiffy Mart bin. The Northwest Center sells the clothing to Value Village, with proceeds benefiting adults and children with disabilites.

Or save your good-quality clothing to bring to the next ReFashion Bainbridge Clothing Swap in November!

BARN and Sustainable Bainbridge are co-hosting another free community repair event at BARN on Saturday, September 19, 10am-1pm (arrive by 12:30pm). Go to this page to see what to bring and how to prepare.

We always need volunteer fixers! Please email Heather Dowey to be put on the list.

Check out our FAQ section on the BIBC event page to get all the details.

if you'd like to make pick-up a habit, contact Zero Waste to borrow a grabber for a while. (Some borrowers are still active four years on!) Island newcomer Casey McGrath, pictured on left, has been cleaning up the roadsides on his bike all spring and summer with a ZW grabber.

Bainbridge Disposal hauls the island's glass, metal, paper and certain kinds of plastic (list here) to the WM JMK Fibers materials recovery facility in the Port of Tacoma. If you missed the virtual tour of this recycling facility in the spring, here's your second chance to see the different processes that are used to sort our mixed recyclables into homogeneous bales before they are sold off to become new cans, bottles, and paper.

Join WM on Friday, August 28, 12-1pm.

Whenever you are looking for a destination for something not accepted in your curbside bin, be sure to visit the

 "Guide to Reusing and/or Recycing Locally" on our website. If you have an addition for it or see a correction needed, please contact me.

Newsletter editor: Diane Landry, Zero Waste BI (Volunteer) Director

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