Home & Garden
Learn how you can decrease your impact on our planet and conserve resources at home & garden.
Home
Green Snohomish member Emily Collins offers presentations on sustainable living and reducing your waste at home. She has presented at the Washington State Recycling Association’s Annual Conference and Trade Show, and local libraries.
Catch up with her at a Green Snohomish meeting, or at one of her presentations to learn about the challenges, exciting visions, and realistic steps to getting us all on board for a more reusable future.
Her presentation slides are available here:
Gardening
Members of Green Snohomish, Stacie and Brian Douglas, were lucky enough to be asked to give a presentation on sustainable gardening at the Snohomish 101 workshop series.
The presentation slides are available here:
Composting
Food waste
Reducing food waste is one of the most important ways we can fight climate change. 30% to 40% of all food goes to waste in the United States. In 2010, that equalled 133 billion pounds and $161 billion worth of food. Food is the single largest category of material placed in landfills in the United States. Landfills are the third-largest source of human-related methane emissions in the United States, accounting for approximately 14.1 % of these emissions in 2017. The average American family of four throws out $1,500 in food per year.
Sources:
https://www.usda.gov/foodlossandwaste/why
https://www.rubicon.com/blog/food-waste-facts/
https://drawdown.org/solutions/reduced-food-waste.
Curbside composting guidelines
If you have a curbside yard waste bin pickup service, the allowable items may differ based on the facility doing the composting.
For most of Snohomish and north King County, Cedar Grove is the facility composting the yard waste bins. Find what items they can successfully compost and what to avoid.
Other resources:
https://www.wmnorthwest.com/nkingcounty/yardwaste.html
https://kingcounty.gov/depts/dnrp/solid-waste/garbage-recycling/compost-right.aspx