Us vs. Then…

It is time to create the community that we want for the future, says Bainbridge native Danielle Bogardus. We need to step beyond what is easy right now. Closing the loop and taking responsibility for our waste is a priority.”

The time is now

Entrepreneur, Philanthropist and Aveterra partner, Danielle Bogardus

Aveterra presents a feasible solution to not only create a more sustainable community but also to heal any damage Bainbridge’s triangle property may have suffered during its decades as an industrial sandpit.”

Please take a minute to listen to some recent conversations I’ve had with island neighbors.” — Danielle

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Let’s Close the Circle at the Triangle

For decades, the “triangle property” at the intersection of Fletcher Bay and Lynwood Center Road has operated as an industrial sandpit. Islanders have a better plan. If you support closing the circle at the triangle – making it a useful, productive and impactful place for Bainbridge that closes the loop and gives back to our environment, your signature will help. An island-owned compost facility will not only be a first — capturing nutrients and producing certified organic soils locally – it will reduce our community’s carbon footprint and help protect Puget Sound.

Close the Circle at the Triangle | Your signature helps island sustainability

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To Whom It May Concern:

For decades, the “triangle property” at the intersection of Fletcher Bay and Lynwood Center Road has operated as an industrial sandpit. Islanders have a better plan. I support closing the circle at the triangle – making it a useful, productive and impactful place for Bainbridge that closes the loop and gives back to our environment. An island-owned compost facility will not only be a first - capturing nutrients and producing certified organic soils locally – it will reduce our community’s carbon footprint and help protect Puget Sound.

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Perfect Beginnings

It makes a whole lot of sense that a start-up compost facility, with the goal of closing the loop on organic waste, began right here on our own island.  We’d like to introduce Aveterra.  We are a small local business trying to make a difference by partnering with the City of Bainbridge Island and our local Bainbridge Disposal to provide composting technology, recipes for soil amendments and business consulting services for our community.

We are a community that cares.  Twenty-two thousand of us call this special place home including our CEO, Mollie Bogardus.  Mollie grew up on the Island and has raised her own family here . With a love of horses, and a background in sustainability, it made perfect sense for her to pursue a compost facility that could take care of Bainbridge’s needs.

Like Aveterra, Islanders believe and understand the need for community based composting.  Currently, we dispose of most of our island’s organic waste 45 miles away, requiring extensive trucking at great carbon cost.  We then turn around and use more carbon to import soil products back onto the island.  Unbeknownst to most, equine waste also poses a significant challenge.  If it’s not trucked off the Island to the landfill, it oftentimes sits behind stables only to seep into the ground water and impact nutrient runoff.  This waste stream creates algae blooms and damages fragile ecosystems right off our shores.

We want to improve all of this.  In a relatively small footprint facility, we will harness the strength of a scientifically proven composting process and turn our local waste into a nutrient rich soil amendment for sale and for use right here on our island.  This is just the beginning.  Please stay tuned and follow our progress.