January 15, 2020
ZW Meeting This Saturday
11am-12:30pm at Sotheby's Realty
 240 Winslow Way East
Special Guest: Jay Hildebrand, Safeway/Albertson's Superintendent of the Asset Recovery Center (i.e., reuse and recycling) at the Auburn Distribution Center. In 2017, they received the Business Generator of the Year award from the Washington State Recycling Association. Go here and scroll down to read about the company's landfill diversion efforts. Come to the meeting to ask Jay questions and make suggestions about the practices at Bainbridge Island's Safeway.
Trashion Show Applications Due This Sunday
Our new category, the Mystery Box Challenge, is full! There is a waiting list, but enroll in another category by January 19 if you definitely want to be considered as an entrant. The application page is here.

You also have till January 19 to check out the Trashion display in the Bainbridge Public Library lobby case.
Bainbridge Barter Meeting
Looking to trade a pie for potatoes? A poem for puppy sitting? Come to the Bainbridge Barter Network's planning meeting for the first Barter Fair (in March) on Wednesday, January 29, at 7:30pm in the Winslow Cohousing Common Room.
Another Styro Success
This past weekend, 448 drivers and one biker dropped off Styrofoam block packaging, coolers, peanuts and food trays (plus some home-baked cookies) that our 50+ volunteers enthusiastically snapped and bagged (and savored). The 135 gigantic, stuffed bags now await their turn to travel with Howard Block (above left), owner of Bay Hay and Feed, to Styro Recycle to be chopped up and melted down for sale to a plastics processor. Watch this brief clip to see how the densifying happens.
January Calendar
January 18 -  Zero Waste meeting, Saturday, 11am-12:30, at Sotheby's Realty, 240 Winslow Way East. Guest speaker: Safeway's regional sustainability officer
January 19   - Due date for Call for Artists sketches and raw materials list via  email .
January 20  - Last day to recycle light strings at Bainbridge Ace Hardware.
January 29 - Barter Fair planning meeting, Wednesday, 7:30pm, at Winslow Cohousing Common Room
Newsletter editor: Diane Landry, BI Zero Waste (Volunteer) Director
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BI Zero Waste is an all-volunteer program of Sustainable Bainbridge.
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