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https://portofsouthwhidbey.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/repurposefinalv2.png15001664rePurpose helps community members find the best way to manage these resources. It strives to help people understand that refusing, reducing and reusing is always the best option before recycling. To create a zero waste community, we need a radical rethink of our systems, policies, and personal choices. rePurpose moves towards this future through upstream policy changes and downstream waste management. rePurpose’s vision is to affect policy change on Whidbey Island and beyond, to implement community action through repair events, food composting workshops, and art making, and provide zero waste education through presentations; to establish rePurpose spaces throughout the community for reuse and recycling; and deepen our communications with community partners such as the South Whidbey Community Center. Our zero waste group came together through the mutual passion for the environment of Derek Hoshiko and Joan Green in December 2021 after the City of Langley declared a Climate Emergency. Joan invited Sarah Bergquist to serve as an educational advisor to the group after she took Sarah’s Waste Wise volunteer training through Washington State University (WSU). Other members of the Whidbey Island community who had an interest in zero waste have joined to share their skills and ideas.