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Wallingford and Ballard Win the Seattle Think Green Challenge

The Seattle Think Green Challenge organized by Waste Management partnered with neighborhood organizations to challenge 3 Seattle regions to reduce waste and recycle more. Over the past six months, neighborhoods hosted polystyrene foam collection events and provided containers and signage for recycling and yard and food waste collection in public areas. Seattle residents serviced by Waste Management for recycling, composting and garbage competed to win through either waste reduction activities or community education and involvement. Led by the Wallingford Community Council and Sustainable…

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Recycling Challenge – Get A Free Compost Collector

So you live in Wallingford and, of course, you faithfully collect your food scraps and haul them out to the yard waste cart. But do you yearn for a container that's a bit more stylish than that old quart-size yogurt container? Now's your chance. The City of Seattle is offering compost buckets (pictured right) to give - for free - to residents who pledge to compost.  The buckets retail for about $15 and are dishwasher-safe. Pick up your free compost collector…

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Read more about the article Click to Earn Recycling Challenge $$ for Non-Profits

Click to Earn Recycling Challenge $$ for Non-Profits

In December the competition heated up in the Waste Management Think Green Recycling Challenge.  Our Friday North* volunteers organized a record 11 outreach activities last month, but the Tuesday South route, represented by West Seattle JuNo, matched us with 11 of their own. The Recycling Challenge is a contest sponsored by Waste Management for the 10 Seattle neighborhoods it services with residential waste pickup. Of those 10, the neighborhood route that reduces its garbage per household the most from October 2013…

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Wallingford Wins $2,000 More by Wasting Less

Another month, another $2,000 for non-profits in the neighborhood, thanks to the Waste Management Think Green Recycling Challenge. You and your neighbors took part in eight outreach activities in November which earned the Friday North route* the cash award for completing the most outreach activities in November. You may have heard about the Recycling Challenge at the Wallingford Community Council meeting, at the Meaningful Movies, or at a recycled crafts party at Mosaic. Perhaps you were one of the 200+ folks…

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Free Kitchen Compost Kit at Good Shepherd Dec. 2

Just when you were wondering how to more stylishly haul your food scraps from kitchen to yard waste cart, here comes the perfect sporty EcoSafe compost bucket - and it's free! Seattle Public Utilities and the Seattle Mariners are offering free kitchen compost containers to Seattle residents to help us reduce our holiday “wastelines." On Monday, December 2, from 11 am to 2 pm, Seattle residents who pledge to recycle and compost can receive a collector’s edition Felix Hernandez Kitchen Caddy at…

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Think Green Recycling Challenge? We’re On It!

Waste Management's Think Green Recycling Challenge is back for a third and final year. The Challenge runs from October 2013 - March 2014. Once again the Wallingford Community Council (WCC) is sponsoring the effort in the Friday North route (Friday being the day that Waste Management (WM) picks up our garbage and recycling, and we are in North Seattle). The rules for the Challenge have changed this year, giving the WCC a variety of ways to earn money for local non-profits.…

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Green Your School

Four years ago, my introduction into the world of public-school parenting was eased by finding my niche in the school early on. A personable woman – who turned out to be Wallywriter and waste-reducer extraordinaire, Barb – invited me to volunteer in the school lunchroom where I helped the student Green Team manage the sorting of compost, recycling and trash. The following year, my son changed schools to one that didn’t have a lunchroom recycling and composting program. I called on…

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