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Education & Events-Waste Prevention

The Clallam County Waste Prevention Program helps residents, organizations and businesses know how to recycle right and meet their waste prevention goals.

See our brochures, flyers, pamphlets, surveys and other material available below for download and print for your own use. Contact us with questions or additional material requests. Visit the Education & Events-Hazardous Waste page for additional resources on hazardous waste.

We are available for presentations and workshops for your school or organization. Check back for current event information open to the general public.

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Current Events

3/7/2020 Master Composter Recycler Workshop. Half day workshops with information on home composting, recycling right, waste prevention and more. Sequim Library 9-1pm. Port Angeles Library 3-7 pm.

3/12/2020 Recycling Right Q&A. Do you have questions about what and how to recycle properly? Come ask the experts about what is accepted and how to prepare it for drop box and curbside recycling. Regional Transfer Station 10am-noon. Blue Mountain Transfer Station 1-3 pm.

POSTPONED Date TBA 4/30/2020 11-2 pm. Making the Most of Waste: Opportunities to Stimulate our Local Economy. Hosted by Clallm County Solid Waste Advisory Committee, this forum in Port Angeles will feature an exciting keynote as well as local businesses and organizations with creative, economic, and sustainable approaches to local waste streams. Ticket link (includes lunch) availabe through Brown Paper Tickets soon.

Keynote: Center for Sustainable Infrastructure's soon to be released report:Waste Management to Clean Materials: A 2040 Roadmap for Pacific Northwest Leadership, offering a blueprint that regional leaders can use to build a world-class Clean Materials infrastructure and economy by 2040, that shrinks the Northwest’s environmental footprint dramatically and creates tens of thousands of good Clean Materials jobs throughout the region.

2020 Composting Workshops. Dates TBA.

Downloadable Materials
An image of the Recyclopedia brochure
 An image of a pdf that shows what you can recycle in Clallam County image of signage used for sorting items for recycling, composting or landfill
What you can recycle Waste Sorting Signage for Events & Organizations Composting Brochure

 
An image of the Med-Return brochure An image of the Light Recycle brochure An image of the Paint brochure
An image of the Moderate Risk Waste Facility brochure
Medicine Disposal Brochure Latex Paint Brochure

 

If you have additional questions about the Waste Prevention Program and how we can help you, please contact Public Works at 360-417-2441 or use our email form below.
Clallam County Public Works