The Sort Report Winter 2025

Happy New Year SLO County from your IWMA! We are thrilled to welcome in another year of reduction, reuse and recycling here in beautiful SLO County.

The new year is a perfect time for us all to reflect on 2024 and set goals for 2025. In this edition of the Sort Report, we're sharing with you some of our reflections, intentions and resolutions.

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A Letter from our Executive Director: Reflections on 2024

It was a very busy year at the IWMA. We started the year working on welcoming the County back: after a brief hiatus, the County rejoined the IWMA…

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No Buy 2025

According to the UN, 99% of the items we purchase are thrown away within six months. The rapid pace at which we buy things and then discard them is a…

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Our Re-use Resolutions

These are the five actions that we hope to prioritize in the New Year, to work on reusing materials and keeping them out of the landfill.

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Packaging Face-Off: Egg Carton Throwdown

In today's Packaging Face-Off, three contenders enter the arena. Typically, eggs are sold in the grocery store in one of three packages: paper…

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