Before 2019, Zero Waste used to have monthly meetings. It's time for us to connect again! Please join us on Sunday, October 6, 1-3pm, at cozy Yeomalt Cabin. Bring some food to share and a place setting (we'll have extras in case you forget).

What's in store?

• Good conversation
• Games
• S'mores
• Your ideas for future ZW initiatives
• Ridwell raffles for a free month
• Reuse giveaways

Please RSVP, but if you forget, come anyway!

From Sept 28-Oct 13, you can drop off clean, outgrown, children's Halloween costumes and accessories in the donation bin outside the front lobby of KiDiMu (Kids Discovery Museum), 301 Ravine Lane. The donation bin will be out daily 9am-4pm. "Shopping" will start October 14.

Community partner event:

Kitsap County Fix-it Fairs

October 12

10am-1pm

Poulsbo Library

November 2

10:30am-1:30pm

Kingston Library

Free

Details here.

Note:

There is mounting interest in having a fix-it fair on Bainbridge. If you are interested in getting involved, try volunteering in some capacity at one of the above fairs first. Fill out this form to volunteer.

ReFashion Bainbridge:

First Fall Clothing Swap

November 17

1-3:30pm

Filipino American Hall

Only drop-off day:

November 16, 11am-3pm

Donations accepted to offset rental fee.

Details here.

More than 130 residents outfitted themselves with buckets, bags and grabbers to clean up our shoreline for the ninth annual Bainbridge Island Beach Cleanup on September 15.

Erik Hammer at Hammer Visuals generously donated his time to film, edit and create this brief video of our volunteers in action. Perhaps you will see yourself if you got out on the beach that day.

An exhibit currently showing at the Burke Museum on the University of Washington campus, Our Material World, looks at our trash and the story in all our stuff. It comes highly recommended by ReFashion chair, Naomi Spinak.

Sustainable Bainbridge, the Land Trust, and the Parks and Trails Foundation support a "No" vote on Washington state's Initiative 2117 (as do an unprecedented 450 other organizations in the state).

Due to the Climate Commitment Act placing a fee on pollution, $2 billion is now being invested across Washington on conservation, public transit, decarbonization, air quality, wildfire prevention, climate resilience, energy assistance programs to low-income households, salmon recovery, farmland, and more.

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.