The Rotary Club of Tsawwassen is collecting used coffee bags.
Kathleen Beaton, chair of the club’s environmental committee, notes the bags can be dropped off at the following Tsawwassen coffee shops: Petra’s, Wood N Frog, Ambiente, Beach Grove Café, Blenz and Starbucks.
The club collects the bags and sends them to Terracycle, an “upcycling and recycling company that collects difficult-to-recycle packaging and products and repurposes the material into affordable, innovative products,” the company’s website states.
The club has collected about 2,000 coffee bags in about four months, Beaton says.
In addition to trying to keep coffee bags out of the landfill, she adds the club has also painted some storm drains with yellow fish markings and stopped using water bottles.
“We’re really trying to be as green as we can,” she says.