Pumpkin Smash – 11/1 at Lakeside Community Center

Smash your pumpkins, grab free compost, and drop off costumes! Join us the day after Halloween for a fun, sustainable community festival!

Join I Love A Clean San Diego for our first Pumpkin Smash Festival: a free, family-friendly community event at the Lakeside Community Center!

Bring your Jack-O’-Lanterns and pre-loved pumpkins to smash into our organic waste collection area, pick up free compost for your garden, drop off pre-loved Halloween costumes, plant seeds to take home, and explore educational booths focused on organic waste recycling and sustainability.

After your pumpkins have been smashed, we’ll ensure they are composted or given to hungry farm animals*.

Learn how food scraps and other organic materials can be recycled, discover simple ways to reduce waste at home, and enjoy a fun day of sustainability with the Lakeside community.

Stay ’till the end for the chance to participate in an opportunity drawing for a prize!

What you’ll see:

Pumpkin Smash 🎃

Bring your Jack-O’-Lanterns and pre-loved pumpkins to help divert organic waste from the landfill.

Free Compost Giveaway 🪏

Bring a shovel and container to take home free compost for your garden while supplies last.

Halloween Costume Drive👻

Drop off gently used Halloween costumes for donation!

Seed Planting 🌱

Decorate a biodegradable planter, sprinkle some seeds, and plant it directly in your home garden!

Educational Booths 🥕

Learn about organic waste recycling, food scraps collection, composting, and simple ways to reduce waste in your everyday life

Games 🌽

Opportunity to be selected for a prize 🎫

Reminders

  • Bring your jack-o-lantern or pre-loved pumpkins for composting or animal feed*!
  • Donate costumes that are gently used and free of rips, stains, or odors!
  • Picking up Compost? Participants should be prepared to self-load their compost. Bring: a shovel, gloves, containers for transporting compost, and tarps & bungees for truck beds. All truck beds must be covered.
  • All participants are required to sign waivers upon entering the event.

* Are you interested in accepting pumpkin scraps for composting or farm use?

🎃 We’re looking for farmers and composters who may be able to accept pumpkin scraps collected from the event. Please contact Joely at jreyes@cleansd.org or (619) 342-9918.

Event is made possible by the County of San Diego and facilitated by I Love A Clean San Diego.

Organic Waste Recycling Webinar

The City of San Diego’s curbside organic waste recycling program is here! Join us on Tuesday, February 13, at 12 p.m. for our free Organic Waste Recycling webinar to learn about the program, what it means for City of San Diego residents, and how to do it at home.

 

During this one-hour webinar, you will learn:

 

  • How to properly dispose of food waste through the curbside organic waste recycling program
  • What types of waste can be put in the green bin
  • Why it’s so important to divert organic waste from our landfills

 

Attendees will be entered into a drawing to win a $25 Visa e-gift card, distributed at the end of the webinar.

 

Registration is required. Participants who cannot attend live are encouraged to register to receive the recording and additional resources. Thank you to the City of San Diego Environmental Services Department for sponsoring this event!

Food Scraps Recycling for San Diego Businesses

Join us for a free webinar focused on food scraps recycling for businesses. In this informational webinar, we will cover tips and tricks for food scraps recycling, share case studies from local businesses who have implemented changes successfully, and leave you feeling empowered to begin making incremental shifts in your own practices. Click here to register!

To take full advantage of this program, join us on Wednesday, May 10th from 3-4 pm for Part Two: Creating a Zero Waste Business. This second event will detail how to become a more environmentally conscious business. Click here to register for Creating a Zero Waste Business.

 

Save Your Scraps Webinar

Did you know that 40 percent of the food grown, processed and transported in the U.S. currently goes to waste? Adopting a zero waste mindset in the kitchen is a key step everyone can take to reduce this amount and live more sustainably.

 

Join I Love A Clean San Diego, in partnership with the City of Vista, on Wednesday, November 9th from 5pm-6pm for our free Save Your Scraps webinar! Come hungry to learn ways to reduce food waste and how to recycle right in the kitchen. We’ll share tips on meal prepping, food storage, low-waste cooking, and how to properly dispose of food waste through the the City of Vista’s new curbside organics recycling program. Discover what types of waste can be put in organics recycling bins, and why it is so important to keep organic waste from reaching the landfill. You’ll leave with the tools you need to stop wasting food (and money) in your home!

 

Please register to receive the Zoom link. We look forward to seeing you on November 9th!

Save Your Scraps Workshop

Chula Vista Organics Workshop

Join ILACSD as we team up with the City of Chula Vista to bring you an organics workshop! On Saturday, March 16, 2019, we will be hosting the Save Your Scraps Workshop from 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM at Novo Brazil Brewery! The workshop is complimentary and open to the public.

Learn how to keep organics out of the landfill by shopping smart, storing food properly, and composting your scraps. We’ll also cover water conservation tools, such as ocean-friendly gardens and laundry-to-landscape systems. Join us for this fun, informative workshop and participate in one of the hands-on activities including a ‘make and take’ project and an eco-friendly kids’ craft. Don’t forget to stick around for the raffle prizes as well!

After the workshop, attendees can enjoy 10% off Novo Brazil Brewery beverages!

Make and Take Project: Decorate Reusable Produce Bags
Eco-Friendly Kids’ Craft: Creating “Eat Me First” Signs for Sustainable Food Storage
Raffle Prizes: Dr. Bronner’s Soaps and Beeswax Wraps (a great alternative to plastic wrap)

Register today!