High noon on Saturday is your chance to clean out your closet and/or update your look AND help all kinds of critters (fur babies and wild ones) AND keep things out of landfill AND start to build a more circular economy. And socialize. Bonus. The Pemberton Fall Clothing Swap is an initiative of the SLRD's Zero … Continue reading Fall Clothing Swap at the Pemberton Community Centre, Saturday, Nov 3, Noon – 3pm
Rally around a local family who've been dealt an unenviable hand, at the Pemberton Clothing Swap at the Community Centre on Saturday, November 4, from noon until 2pm. $10 entry fee if you come with clothes to swap. $20 if you're empty-handed. As explained on the Facebook event page: Swap your previously loved pieces for … Continue reading Clothes Swap for a Cause, November 4
Kicking off our month of litterless lunch ideas is a recipe from the Zero Waste education coordinator herself, naturalist Kathy Jenkins, who says: "I get stressed out if I run out of these because I can't handle buying bars from the store. You can add whatever dry ingredients you like." Hat-tip to Girl's Gone Child … Continue reading Litterless Lunch Hack #1: Make Your Own Granola Bars!
Could you fit a year's worth of your garbage into a mason jar?
Okay, that's my first real attempt at writing a blatantly click-baity headline. Did it work? Notwithstanding my flirtation with that little tactic of the interwebs, I am honestly amazed by this little kitchen hack that my crunchy colleague shared with me. Now I don't have to peel every cucumber I eat, losing all the good … Continue reading Never eat a bitter cucumber again, once you discover this amazingly simple trick
What would it look like if you and your family lay down in your household garbage? Gregg Segal, photographer, explored that question, to really bring home the way we are fouling our nest, this lovely planet of ours, with our trashy ways. Interested in exploring your own trash cans a bit more closely? Come chat … Continue reading Pemberton, it’s Time to Talk Trash, Wed Aug 12, 2-5 at the Recycling Depot
You know the Swear Jar, wherein you deposit a fine every time you curse? Maybe we need the opposite... a 3Rs (Reduce/Reuse/Recycle) Reward Jar... SLRD Zero Waste shared an interesting article on Friday. Do you treat yourself when you're environmentally conscious and bring your reusable bag? At an average of 26 cents per trip for … Continue reading Do you need a reuseable bag Reward Jar?
I stared into the trash compactor the other day, where all the plastic was being disposed, and felt a wave of despair. Single use plastic, made from petrochemicals, ending up in the ocean or landfill, where it doesn't decompose, is something even local kids have been agitating against, but until now, I've put it in … Continue reading Why go plastic-free? Because Ocean.
The share shed at the waste transfer station. Garage sales. Swap and buy and sell boards on Facebook. Growing Great Children's Great Closet Clean-Out. There are a host of informal ways to keep useful (not no longer wanted) items in circulation, out of landfill. And now, in addition to Prospects on Prospect Street, Pemberton has a … Continue reading Small footprint. Big Impact. Pemberton gets its own ReUse It Centre.
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