 The Startup425 Eastside Summit will take place on August 1st at Bellevue City Hall. This event will showcase amazing business of all sizes, entrepreneurs, executives, and policy makers on the Eastside. This event coincides with Seattle Tech Week. Please register here.
 WA State Expanded Polystyrene Ban Started June 1st
Across the state of Washington it is now prohibited to sell and distribute expanded polystyrene (EPS) food service products such as plates, bowls, trays, cups, clamshell style containers, portable coolers, and packing peanuts. There are some exceptions to the banned products such as block EPS, trays for packaging for meat, fish, poultry, vegetables, and fruit, egg cartons, and some others. The ban applies to any person, firm, association, partnership, corporation, government entity, organization, or joint venture selling or distributing EPS products covered by the ban. Learn more about the EPS Ban. Anyone can report a suspected violation of the Expanded Polystyrene ban by following instructions on the EPS Ban webpage.
 Summer is here and so is the Eastside BYOC campaign! The campaign is a fun and engaging initiative designed to help us reduce single-use cup waste. By participating, our community is working together to adopt reuse habits that make a positive difference for the environment. We have had lots of partner coffee shops and people participating by bringing their own cup and posting cup selfies on social media. Each week one of the reuse champions that posted a cup selfie will be selected to receive tickets to fun summer events, and in September we will have a grand prize drawing for an e-bike from Propella.
Find out more and continue to help reduce waste by visiting www.eastsidebyoc.com! If you would like your business to be a partner of BYOC this summer, please reach out to Mikayla Binns at MBinns@kirklandwa.gov.
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