Learn How to Recycle More & Use Fewer Plastic Bags at Capitola New Leaf Saturday, Sept 13

Trying to recycle as much as you can, but confused about whether you can recycle to-go cups or certain food packaging? Stop by the New Leaf Community Markets on Saturday, Sept. 13 between 11 am and 3 pm and find out from our area’s waste/recycling processor, GreenWaste Recovery.

You’ll also learn about a new way you can avoid using plastic bags in your home or office: Bagito Reusuable Can Liners for your recyclabes, dry trash, and yard waste. Bagito folks will be on hand to demonstrate these liners, which are now available for sales at New Leaf.

About Bagito Reusable Can Liners: They are used like plastic trash bags for use in the kitchen, bedroom and bath for non-wet trash and recyclables, and for yard waste, but they are reused. You carry the liner to the bins that get picked up by processors, or a dumpster, empty the liner, and then replace it in your trash or recycling can. Bags can be washed if needed. The liners are made from 100% post-consumer recycled plastic, treated with an anti-microbial and are made to last for 1,000s of uses.

Sale of Liners Supports Environmental Education for Kids: Using a hybrid business model, Bagito donates 100% of its profits from each item sold to its sister non-profit, Power2Sustain, for environmental literacy programs for youth. As of spring 2014, over 20,000 students in California and New York have learned key concepts in environmental stewardship and sustainability and have been empowered to take personal responsibility for their natural world.

“We asked New Leaf to partner with us because they are one of our local leaders in environmental stewardship. Just one example, their Envirotoken program to reduce plastic bag use, has motivated New Leaf customer to reuse bags over 5 million times, and generated over $446,889 which was donated to local environmental groups,” said Mitch Barlas, founder of Bagitos.

For more information about the events or the Bagito Reusable Liners contact Michael Logue at Reusable Solutions Group at 831-295-3909 or Michael@power2sustain.org. For more information about Bagito, visit www.bagito.co. For more information about New Leaf Community Markets, visit www.newleaf.com.