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Celebrating Kitsap Citizens

Regular Kitsap County Residents Doing Their Part

1 ADOPT-A-ROAD Pictured above is Peyton, 2nd grade trash, and in turn feeds our landfills.
Donna Martin joined the Adopt-A-Road from Manchester Elementary. If you are This school year the Chef Instructor at
program in 2006. She has logged in 162 a Kitsap student (grades K-8), submit Olympic College took a stand against
hours, removed 532 pounds of litter, a poster this fall and receive special food waste and implemented pre-
and cleaned up 73 miles of roadway. recognition, published artwork, and consumer food waste recycling in the
You or a group can adopt your own awesome prizes! culinary arts kitchen. Implementing
road and help to keep Kitsap clean. Did a new recycling program can be
you know that those who meet the 3 EARTH DAY challenging; however, Chef Plemmons
programs annual clean-up commitment Bainbridge Island Boy Scout Troop and his team at Olympic College
receive a roadside recognition sign? #1564 was awarded the Partner in wholeheartedly embraced the idea
Environmental Education award. For the of diverting organics from the landfill.
2 KITSAP RECYCLES DAY past 20 years, Troop #1564 has recycled From their kitchen alone, an estimated
This year’s poster contest theme was holiday trees on Bainbridge Island. 800 pounds of pre-consumer food
Kitsap Recycling Heroes, sharing with Last year, the troop partnered with waste per month is now diverted to a
the larger community why recycling Bainbridge Island Parks & Recreation to local composting facility.
and reducing waste is important to chip the trees into mulch.
them. Students were asked to depict an Do you want to be a celebrated citizen?
ordinary person becoming a recycling or 4 WASTE WISE @ WORK Contact Kitsap1 for more information
reusing superhero. Seven local students Food waste is the single largest on any of these programs.
were honored for their artistic efforts. component of common household

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