Green Circle SGV

"Plates for the People" is coming back this September!

Special thanks to Altadena Rotary Club for the woman's small business grant 🙏

While establishing a sustainable business model, we are committed to provide an affordable borrow clean and return clean option in addition to full catering services and pickup-clean & drop off-dirty option.

We will provide our services at Active San Gabriel Valley - Active SGV's annual event on 9/12 as a kick start! And our goal is to have 6 more clients in September.

Please reach out to us if you are planning on serving food or/and beverage at your meeting/gathering/event.

Our mission is to normalize "reuse" and say Sayorana to "throw away" culture. 🍴 💦 🌎

Community Reusables | Green Circle We offer flexible options for renting reusables (dinner plates, dessert bowls, dinner forks, dessert spoons, beverage cups/glasses/jars) from full-service support with setup and dishwashing services to budget no-frills (you wash the reusables and return them clean). Or you can make an arrangement so...

Congratulations to our board .dotwong and other 2024 QAPI Community Champions awarded by Senator and his team 🏆 🎉🙌

https://www.altapasagreencircle.org/

Home | Green Circle Our Plates for the People service provided reusables and dishwashing free of charge at the market to make it easy for vendors and patrons to transition off single-use disposables.

We had a fun class collaborating with 🌎
We make a difference one furoshiki at time :)

Last Furoshiki Class this Saturday at Eaton Canyon Nature Center! Every student will get a reserved parking spot 🅿️

There are a few spots left. Register today!

Register for the Furoshiki Class on Saturday, 5/18 OR 5/25 at Eaton Canyon Nature Center!

Join us to learn how to ditch disposables by wrapping your utensils, lunch boxes and gifts in Furoshiki clothes!

Time to say sayonara to single-use plastic bags and utensils! Furoshiki wrapping will teach you how :) 💕
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Register today for either Saturday 5/18 or Saturday 5/25!

Register for the Furoshiki Class on Saturday, 5/18 OR 5/25 at Eaton Canyon Nature Center!

Join us to learn how to ditch disposables by wrapping your utensils, lunch boxes and gifts in Furoshiki clothes!

Register today!
Parking will be reserved (that's the bonus :)).

MAY 18 and 25 at Eaton Canyon Nature Center Associates: Here's a wonderful opportunity to learn furoshiki, the traditional Japanese art of wrapping your daily items, gifts, tools and other useful things in fabric. For ages 13 and up. Use the QR codes below to register. Don't delay - the classes will fill up before you know it!

Visited eco-minded friends to celebrate the tool library kick-off by

Check out the microbes in the compost and worm tea from home!

T shirts repurposed into shopping bags inspired by

Register for the Furoshiki Class on Saturday, 5/18 OR 5/25 at Eaton Canyon Nature Center!

Join us to learn how to ditch disposables by wrapping your utensils, lunch boxes and gifts in Furoshiki clothes!

Please sign a petition, we desperately need to reduce plastic manufacturing!

End the Age of plastic: Global Plastics Treaty Now! Tell President Biden to champion a strong global plastics treaty during negotiations.

Good reminder from CBS Sunday Morning from today to:
Rethink
Reduce
Reuse
Reuse
Reuse
Reuse and
Reuse :)

Critics call out plastics industry over recycling "fraud" About 48 million tons of plastic waste is generated in the United States each year, but only 5 to 6 percent of it is actually recycled. A new report from the...

wrapping workshop for sustainable living is coming in April and May at Eaton Canyon Nature Center 🤠 Stay tuned!

Special thanks to the Buy Nothing Altadena (West) group for sharing the signage stands with us! 🌎

Once upon a time, one eco minded woman of color started a zero waste booth at Altadena Farmers Market.
Later on, she named the project as Green Circle and started inviting green-minded groups to the circle at Loma Alta Park.

Photo credit to her nature loving husband.

1st time back after the pandemic to mingle with green-minded locals at
- PEAs initiated after 20+ local green groups collaborated for a Styrofoam ban in Pasadena, CA.
Special thanks to our friend for organizing the gathering, our former fiscal sponsor for providing the workshop with to improve the community 's environmental health.

Exclusive Director joined to spread to the community today 🙂 🌎

Photo credit to Repair Cafe Pasadena ⚒️ 🧵🪡

If you haven't made one, here is one for you:
New year's resolution: BYOE 🍴🍴
Just grub your utensils and wrap in a bandana for your lunch ☺️
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Holiday potluck can be less wasteful with 🎄🎁🎄🎁

Happy Green Holidays to you on Mother Earth 🌍
Green Circle SGV is looking forward to working with the community to make our home a cleaner place.
We would love to be a partner of




Please connect us!

Happy Friday!
One jar at a time.
One spoon at a time.
One bag at a time.
One food container at a time.
Our little eco efforts accumulate big :)

Happy Giving Tuesday!
Support our movement today :)

🍴 Donate now and be a part of solutions! Please send us a DM for drop off / pick up :)

Dear Friends,

Green Circle SGV is planning on resuming Plates for the People project and asking community to donate:

* Stainless steel forks (dinner and dessert)
* Stainless steel dessert spoons

If you have some collecting dust in the storage, please consider donating to us! TIA 🙏

This is how you do it :)

Hello, Friends and Families from the community. Officially we have become a nonprofit public benefit corporation 501c3. We help individuals, groups and organizations embrace zero-waste practices so that sustainable choices become second nature. Please donate for the cause to combat plastic pollution! 🌏🌍🌎🌈

Reducing fossil fuel use will reduce plastic. Celebrate our city’s goal of 100% carbon free electric power by 2030! Shine sunlight on Pasadena Water and Power. No more business as usual. Climate change is real. Hear “Sunlight Talks” from experts. Bring the family and get up close and personal with a solar panel. See the sunflowers. Send a sunburn message to our City Council and PWP. www.Pasadena100. Music and dance performances.

https://www.youtube.com/live/hWOU_swn100?feature=share

Watch Live: The Secret Life of Plastic Recycling, an ABC News special report

Flashback from the pre-COVID era!
We are bringing back the green energy to the community as an officially formed 501c3 🎉

Waste reduction by more perfectly imperfect minimalists makes more impact than a few zero wasters ...
It's okay to be imperfect.
We embrace people who take small steps and efforts towards .