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 movie 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, there will be a Q&A with toxicologists Shirlee Tan and Elinor Fanning. Plus Heather Trim, executive director of Zero Waste Washington, will preview 2027 state legislation having to do with plastic. You may submit any questions in advance to Zero Waste.

Attendees may participate in two free raffles:



1) A basket of plastic-free home products from Town & Country Market, and

2) The new book, The Problem with Plastic: How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet before It's Too Late, by Beyond Plastics founder Judith Enck, accompanied by a book bag and sticker, all donated by Eagle Harbor Books.

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

If you can't make this event, Kitsap Solid Waste is holding one on Saturday, October 3, at the Poulsbo Library from 11am-2pm (arrive by 1:30). More info here.

BI Flashdrive is collecting the following cat and dog items for the Kitsap Humane Society this Saturday, September 19, starting at 8am. Email Kathy McGowan by Friday with your location if you have a pick-up:

• Sheets and pillow cases* - fitted okay
• Towels* - any size
• Blankets - baby blankets okay
• Stainless steel food bowls
• Animal crates
• Animal carriers - plastic only
• Baby gates

* May have embroidery or bleach stains. No fraying.

Join us for the 11th annual Bainbridge Island Beach Cleanup on Saturday, September 26, during low-tide hours 10am-1pm. Volunteers spread out across the island at road ends, public shorelines, and their own properties to help make our beaches healthier for people and wildlife. Scroll down here to see all the park and road-end choices.

If you need a bucket and/or grabber, stop in at the big gravel lot on Miller Road (next to Kol Shalom) to borrow starting at 9:30am that day. Be sure to return any equipment before 1:15pm that afternoon.

Debris can be taken home or brought to our free dumpster (thank you, Bainbridge Disposal!) at the Miller Road lot. If you pick up at Fay Bainbridge or Blakely Harbor Park, the Parks Department has supplies there for you to use. Go here for more details and to tell us where you are participating.

And who knows, you may feel the urge to construct an artistic piece from the trash you gather. This wall hanging was created by local artist Georgia Zwartjes, who, as stated on her website, is "inspired to create art from the remnants of everyday life, using materials outside the realm of traditional fibers." She collected these bubblewrap-encased pieces of plastic while doing a beach cleanup in Suquamish.

Bring your sensitive documents for safe destruction to the Bainbridge branch of Kitsap Bank, 10140 High School Road, on Saturday, October 3, 9am-noon. There is a 75-pound limit per vehicle. The shredded paper will be recycled.

You must make a monetary (cash only) donation to get your paper shredded. All donations go to Helpline House.

Shredded paper cannot go in curbside recycling because it is too small to go through the sorting process with other recyclables at the murf (MRF=materials recovery facility), where the sorting and baling of our curbside material occurs. But a shred event collects just one type of recyclable -- paper --which makes it easy to compact, bale and then send off to a paper recycling plant. Here's a quick 2-minute video of the process.

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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