01/05/2026
BEFORE THE BINS SUMMARY 💚
We encourage the community to "Think Outside the Big Box Stores" and "Before the Bins". 📦
If it "hurts to toss", we will take it! If we don't find a use for it, we find someone else who will. There's no "list" because the limit does not exist! Sometimes inspiration comes from... interesting pieces. 🤔
In 2025, the Community of Grand Lake collectively saved:
💚 863 Glass Jars didn't go into the Bins 🫙
💚 We UpCYRcled 308 pieces ⤴️
💚 The Community utilized 184 pieces instead of purchasing new 👥
Another Fun Fact? We were on hiatus last year while rebranding... so these numbers ONLY reflect what the power of "word of mouth" is in our community! 🤝
This was meant to be shared last year... (CYR what we did there 👀) but we were ALL sick with something different over the break, so thank y'all for your patience! It's been really exciting to watch the various ways members in our community have been collaborating to reduce waste and reuse different items for different projects! 🥲
We are currently 100% SOLD OUT 💚 But we will be back soon with NEW products to browse!
