Zero Waste Washington pilots projects to help test concepts and help prove concepts.
Here are some of our recent piloted community projects:
Zero Waste Hackathon
This new five-week virtual competition provides online seminars, learning tools, coaching resources, collaboration sessions, and cash prizes to accelerate the pace of Zero Waste innovation by student entrepreneurs across the Pacific Northwest.
Learn more here.
Testing and Developing a Litter Assessment Protocol
We need to fill a big data gap: quantifying the amount and sources of plastics getting into our waters and flowing down into our Sound and ocean. Zero Waste Washington is working to support the many community science groups, nonprofits, scout troops, school groups, and other civic groups that do litter cleanups and creek monitoring. We are working with the US Environmental Protection Agency to help test a new litter assessment protocol across the state. The goal is to robustly identify the types and amounts of litter in many different locations so that litter can be quantified as a pollutant under the federal Clean Water Act.
Former Pilot Project: Fix-It Fairs
Zero Waste Washington helped establish Fix-it Fairs (free community repair events) in Tacoma and Seattle, laying the groundwork for the larger Repair Economy project that is now supporting repair, share, and remaking efforts statewide.
