Waste Reduction Guild

Communicate sustainable practices and support community activity that reduces waste.

plastic waste 1.jpeg — Waste Streams

Actively communicate about and participate in all single-use plastic reduction activity. activities.
Actively communicate about and participate in litter clean-ups of in the Salish Sea and our islands.

Composting

Actively communicate about and participate in pursuing community composting initiatives.

Recycle/Re-purpose

Actively communicate about and participate in the remaking and reusing of community products.

Waste Reduction project ideas:

1. Composting projects:

a. Small scale - encourage and support household composting and support and advertise local composting including businesses using responsible packaging.

b. Large scale -Investigate and support the creation of an island-wide composting system , including the possibility of a glass crushing system on San Juan, or the possibility of initial use of the Orcas plant.

2. Plastic Reduction

a. Education and support for a single-use plastics ordinance

b. Education for reducing plastic in the home and in the community

3. Recycling

a. Encourage The Port of Friday Harbor and Roche Harbor to reinstitute recycling , highlighting business that are using responsible packaging.

b. Educate and support producer responsibility packaging decisions.

Waste Blog

Here’s the article that summarizes the research of Ela and Linnea from Spring Street about where our waste ends up in SJC. Hope y’all can come to their zoom conversation on July 1 too. There’s info about that at the end of the article: https://sanjuans.org/2021/06/11/following-waste-in-sjc/

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