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Sustainability Resources

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It can hold the most delicate objects AND be detrimental to our environment. The Packaging King — expanded polystyrene foam or EPS (Styrofoam™) — pollutes our water and takes hundreds of years to breakdown in landfills. Once broken apart, the polystyrene components crumble into small bits that contaminate our environment even further. Discover ways to reuse EPS and learn how it can be reprocessed into products with a longer lifespan. Future solutions include using textile waste and biomaterials as sustainable packaging filler

Learn easy, real-life, every day actions that you can take to help reduce plastic pollution in the Salish Sea.

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Organics Management

Food Waste Prevention

WSU Snohomish County Extension Food Waste Prevention page

Cedar Grove Compost

Other composters

Where to take yard/clean wood debris

DIY Compost

Waste Reduction

Zero Waste Washington

Repair

Art

Clothing

A green guide to selling, donating, and recycling clothing
Retold Recycling – mail-in clothing recycling service
Bonded Logic – turns textiles into stuffing and insulation for full circularity
Cycla LLC – Secondhand Apparel Wholesale – Cycla works with local thrift stores to bring reusable clothes, shoes and accessories a new life in new hands
Textile donation locations and programs – King County, Washington – these are King County locations, but some businesses have drop boxes for textiles where your residency doesn’t matter.
Zipper Fixing Youtube Tutorial

Cleaning

Green Cleaning recipes (pdf) Are you interested in finding easy, inexpensive, and non-toxic recipes to replace cleaning products found at the grocery store? Our volunteers tested over 20 recipes and narrowed down their favorites into this online Green Cleaning booklet.
Green Cleaning Revolution — a staff-created book list from Sno-Isle Libraries
Safer household cleaning products