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Green Your Seattle Night Out

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Hosting a Seattle Night Out party this Tuesday? Want to impress your “deep green” neighbors? Here are some suggestions to reduce waste at any event:

Provide recycling bins for cans, bottles, cups, and other recyclable items. Do the same for food waste. Have a 5 gallon bucket or similar container lined with a biodegradable bag to give folks a clue that food waste goes in there. Use a very small garbage can for landfill-bound waste so guests aren’t tempted to dump everything in it.

Ask your guests to bring their own plate, cup, fork, and spoon.

Or use compostable plates and bowls (non-shiny paper such as Chinet). Put out your own reusable cups and flatware – and throw them in the dishwasher afterward.

Or use recyclable (plastic or waxed paper) or compostable (specially marked) cups. No Styrofoam cups – they are not recyclable.

Avoid disposable forks, spoons, and knives as they end up in the landfill, even the biodegradable/compostable ones. Only commercial Cedar Grove customers can dispose of biodegradable flatware in their food waste carts.

Skip the bottled water. Provide a pitcher or drink dispenser with tap water. Add slices of lemon or lime to make our top-quality Seattle water even more tasty.

Avoid single-serve drink packaging. Buy drinks in large containers or make your own and serve in a drink cooler or pitcher.

When in doubt, just use what you already have at home. Why buy a bunch of stuff that you will just throw away after a few hours? Before you know it, you’ll want a garbage can even smaller then your neighbors’.

 

 

 

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Barb has lived in south Wallingford since 1992. She's a lady with a lopper as volunteer lead of the Burke-Gilman Trail Urban Orchard Stewards, a group that cares for public fruit trees along the Burke-Gilman Trail between Eastern and where Pacific becomes N 34th. In February 2020 Barb founded the current Friends of Meridian Playground which cares for the fruit trees and grounds of the park and holds weekly volunteer work parties on Wednesday noonish. Friday mornings she joins the Tilth Alliance volunteers to manage the care of the fruit trees at the Good Shepherd learning garden. Barb worked for nonprofit City Fruit for 9 years and still partners with them to teach neighbors to grow good fruit locally. Barb is also accumulating records and photos about the Good Shepherd property for eventual publication online.