Recycling, Compost, or Garbage? Sort Your Way to Sustainability
Part 1 of UWRA's two-part series on Stuff and How to Get Rid of It
If you’ve ever caught yourself hovering in indecision over your recycling bin with your heart full of good intentions and your hands full of plastic, this presentation is for you! Olivia Kirby, Recology’s Waste Zero Supervisor, will bring key rules, tips, and regional requirements for sorting items into recycling, compost, and garbage. She’ll also provide an overview of where waste goes after collection, how it is processed, how materials are recovered and reintegrated into the system, and why proper sorting is essential for environmental sustainability.
Employee-owned Recology seeks to eliminate waste by developing and discovering sustainable resource recovery practices that can be implemented globally. As of 2016, Recology employee owners serve 127 communities throughout California, Oregon, Washington, and Nevada, with service throughout King County.
ACCESSIBILITY NOTES: This session will be held in the Husky Union Building (HUB), which is accessible for wheelchairs and walkers. The speaker will use a microphone. Please contact the UWRA office if you would like us to reserve an assisted listening device for you. You can read about HUB accessibility here.