zero waste community – Orcas Island Exchange

FREE Paint Recycling

Heather Wallace2025-05-23T20:46:27+00:00August 16, 2021|News|

ORS is a FREE recycling center for all latex and [...]

Compost Inspiration

Heather Wallace2025-05-22T00:25:00+00:00April 8, 2020|Inspiration|

Greetings Composters! April's sunny skies have a lot of us [...]

Recognition by Zero Waste Washington

Heather Wallace2025-05-22T03:57:18+00:00March 19, 2020|Inspiration|

In 2020, Orcas Island Recycling Services/The Exchange was recognized by [...]

VERMI-what???

Heather Wallace2025-05-22T00:28:09+00:00February 1, 2020|Inspiration|

A little hardship grew to big changes in Cuba in [...]

A (not so short) History of Compost

Heather Wallace2025-05-22T00:32:27+00:00January 11, 2020|Inspiration|

Prehistoric farmers discovered that manure from their domesticated animals - [...]

ORS Separating Cardboard

Heather Wallace2023-10-23T23:49:56+00:00May 8, 2019|Knowledge|

Orcas Recycling Services has taken a major step in how [...]

Using 3D Printing for Plastic Reuse

Heather Wallace2019-04-10T14:23:41+00:00April 9, 2019|News|

The Orcas Food Co-op, the Funhouse and The Exchange are [...]

Recycle 2.0: Cardboard

Heather Wallace2019-04-09T14:14:03+00:00April 8, 2019|Knowledge|

Beginning in May, Orcas Recycling Services/The Exchange will introduce a [...]

Film Inspires Plastic Free Living

Heather Wallace2019-03-13T20:09:40+00:00March 13, 2019|Knowledge|

On March 7th the Seaview Theater in Eastsound was packed [...]

Where Does All the Food Waste Go?

Heather Wallace2019-02-12T23:15:32+00:00February 10, 2019|Knowledge|

Late last year when the nation-wide recycling crisis consumed the [...]