Let's Build a Community

👀 Take a peek at some of the things we’ve been up to at Let's Build a Community this past week! From learning how 🍷wine bottles can be gravity filled at Wildland Coop to touring our talented 🎨mosaic artist’s studio to 🥽experimenting with food safe methods to remove labels and adhesive from glass containers, we’ve had a lot of fun! Follow along as we transform Spokane County’s waste glass into a valuable material for our community. #spokanewa #glassrecycling #supportlocal #communitybuilding #nonprofitlife

Gotta love field trips!! Cristina V. and I started our day meeting Michael Townshend at Wildland Coop in Green Bluff. Michael showed us his trusty bottle washer from Aquatech BM (Victor Ederer would have been proud!) 💦 As Mark Odegard can attest, looking at reusing bottles in our community is no small feat given the wide array of bottle types, but it may be possible in smaller batches. We’ll be trying out a batch of bottles for Elz Tastes & Tea Market and see how it goes! We believe a multimodal approach for managing our glass waste in Spokane County is essential. Reuse is one outlet, in addition to working with our local artists for creative upcycling and setting up a facility for pulverization. 🍾 Before lunch, Cristina V. and I visited Mission Park to evaluate it as a potential venue for our August event. We spent some time on the swings— market research of course! 🛝 For lunch, Cristina and I met up with the radiant Pia Hallenberg at My Fresh Basket and talked more about our event for this August (Junkyard Jubilee) and Pia’s hopes and dreams for a second summer of flea markets. After lunch, I spent some time completing overdue tasks on my to-do list so Cristina V. could breathe a little easier. All in all, a wonderful day for us at Let's Build a Community. Many steps closer to bringing our dreams to life! #spokanewa #supportinglocalbusinesses #communitybuilding #nonprofitlife