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Barb has lived in south Wallingford since 1992. She's a lady with a lopper and a ladder as lead volunteer for the Burke-Gilman Trail Urban Orchard Stewards, a City Fruit-sponsored group that cares for public fruit trees along the Burke-Gilman Trail between the University Bridge and Fremont. Since 2013 she has worked for City Fruit as the Orchard Steward Coordinator. Her mission is to wrangle and train volunteers to care for fruit trees on public land in Seattle. Barb was Director of Sustainability for the John Stanford International School in 2009-2011 and in 2012-13 was the parent representative on the JSIS Green Team. Barb helped the school attain Level 3 certification as a Washington Green School. She started the Green Team at Hamilton Int'l Middle School in 2014, and they achieved Level 1 Washington Green Schools certification in Waste and Recycling in June 2014.

Thanksgiving Recycling Checklist

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Thanksgiving is undoubtedly the most wasteful time of the year as far as food goes. Don’t buy more food than you’ll need. Freeze leftovers before you’re tired of them. Avoid unnecessary packaging.

But for those items that just need to get out of the house, use this checklist of what goes in which bin:

FOOD AND YARD WASTE:

Poultry, meat, fish and bones, pumpkins and jack-o-lanterns (no candles), plus every other kind of food item except fat, oil, and grease (see Garbage) Paper napkins, paper towels, coffee filters, tea bags, plain uncoated paper plates (like Chinet), greasy pizza boxes, greasy…

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Garbage Pickup on Normal Schedule Tomorrow

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From Seattle Public Utilities:

Seattle’s food and yard waste, garbage and recycling collections will be on normal schedule for Veterans Day, Friday, November 11. Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) customers should place their containers out by 7 am to ensure collection.

On Veterans Day, the City of Seattle’s North & South Recycling and Disposal Stations will be open during their regular business hours: 8 am to 5:30 pm.…

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Fruit Tree Tip: Pick Up Fallen Fruit and Leaves

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Would you like to grow apples on your tree that you’d actually want to eat? Now is the time for some quick cleanup tasks that will give you better fruit next year.

Pick up fallen fruit.  Regularly collect fruit that is on the ground and add it to your yard waste. This is the single most important thing you can do to prevent insect pests next year.  Pests in fallen fruit overwinter beneath the tree and are in the perfect place to create problems next spring.

Rake up fruit tree leaves. Getting those leaves away from fruit trees keeps leaf-borne …

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Celebrate the Original Slow Food: Apples

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Show your support for local folks who take the long-term view of food
production.

Thursday (11/3) from 5-8 pm, join City Fruit, Northwest Cider Association, and Northwest Sustainability Collaborative for a night of cider tasting from some of the best hard cider makers in the region. For $20 you get 5 tastes. Get your ticket on-line or at the door at 314 First Ave. S.  Every dollar goes toward helping feed hungry people in our community. To learn more and purchase tickets online:  http://cityfruit.org/cidertaste.htm

And Saturday (11/5), from 10 am to 2 pm, in conjunction with Green Seattle Day, the …

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Food Waste – It’s Not Garbage Any More

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REMINDER to Wallingford residents: Garbage, recycling, and yard waste pickup will be one hour earlier – 6:00 am – this Friday, October 28. The earlier pickup time is in response to the viaduct closure and is only for Seattle residents living north of the Ship Canal and west of I-5.

If you really want to reduce the size of your garbage can, plus make your garbage can less “fragrant,”  put all of your food scraps into your yard/food waste container. Any food item without any plastic or foil wrapping can go in your yard/food waste container. One exception …

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Save Some Cash With Your Trash

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The Green Recycling Challenge is up and running with its new website:

http://www.wmnorthwest.com/seattle/seattlerewards.html

Starting in mid-November, the data graph will be updated each month and we’ll be able to see how our ‘hood is doing at reducing its landfill footprint.

In the middle of the web site above, use the “Click Here” link to find Wallingford in the Friday North area on the Seattle route map.  Friday refers to the day that garbage, recycling, and yard waste are picked up. Wallingford is in the North Seattle route for that day.

Now – how you can help win that $50,000, with …

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Waste Not, Wallingford – for $50k

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“My neighborhood’s greener than yours!” Now’s your chance to prove it.

Waste Management, the garbage, recycling, and yard/food waste hauler for Wallingford, is launching its six month Recycling Challenge campaign this week.

All Seattle neighborhoods serviced by Waste Management will compete against each other for a $50,000 prize. The community that reduces the most residential garbage, by weight, will receive a $50,000 grant for a “Main Street” neighborhood improvement project.

To track each community’s progress, Waste Management will compare the percent change in garbage, recycling and food and yard waste from October 2011- March 2012, using 2010 data as the …

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