Each year approximately 35,000 people attend the Strawberry Festival. This fun annual event creates a lot of garbage, totaling about 140,000 pounds of combined materials that is usually trucked off island to the landfill. That’s not very “green”; we can do better. A large portion of festival waste is recyclable. This year, Zero Waste Vashon will be […]
In April and May 2018 ZWV hosted two electronics recycling events in order to relieve the backlog of electronics accumulating on island. These items are not allowed for disposal at the transfer station. All told we collect 7.5 tons of electronics at these two events! What happens to my electronics? This depends on the electronics […]
June News – Compost meeting coming and new videoMay 19, 2022 - 8:32 amSave the date! King County Solid Waste will host an online community event to share both the community survey and compost facility study results. They will also share some possible next steps for organics management on Vashon and host a question & answer session. The online meeting will be on June 7th from 6-8 pm. […]