Due to the recent change in recycling options for glass in East Jefferson County, Local 20/20 has been compiling a list of local businesses that can take back or refill glass containers, or that carry bulk items often purchased in glass. We encourage the community to look for a local business that can provide the products they want in a glass or other container that can be reused. This can be a win win, as reuse is better for the environment than buying new, and buying local supports our local economy as well as reduces the carbon footprint of the products! See below for the current list, and please email us any needed updates at admin@l2020.org.
Wineries and Cideries that take bake their own bottles for reuse:
- Eaglemont Winery | Cidery – takes back their cider bottles and wine bottles. They will give 25 cents credit for the return of rinsed cider bottles.
- Fairwinds Winery – takes back their own wine bottles
- Finnriver Farm and Cidery – takes back their own cider bottles.
- Raincoast Farms and Vineyard – takes back their own wine bottles
Spices:
- Chimacum Corner Store has spices, and peanut butter, and glass containers can be refilled (have cashier do tare weight first)
- Cove RV Park and Country Store carries bulk spices
- Spice and Tea Exchange in Port Townsend has bulk salts, sugars, spices, etc., and teas, that can be put into glass jars or into other containers
- The Food Coop has a wide variety of spices, you can bring in your own container or use their paper or plastic bags.
Other:
- Good Juju Ghee – accepts and reuses their own jars at the PT Coop, Chimacum Corner Store, or Port Townsend and Chimacum farmers market (check schedule), and get the deposit back.
- Hopscotch Farm and Cannery accepts clean label free Hopscotch farm glass canning jars at the PT Saturday farmers market, and reuses them
- Midori Farm carries their ferments (krauts and kimchi) in reusable jars. See their website for details on how to return jars.
- Mountain Spirits (all tincture bottles, at PT Coop)
Breweries, Pubs and Wineries that fill growlers:
- Port Townsend Brewing – will refill growlers with beer
- Port Townsend Vineyards Winery – offers fills/refills of swing-top growlers with a selection of Discovery wines, including red, white, and rosé.
- Sirens Pub – will refill growlers with beer
- Social Fabric Brewing – will refill growlers with beer
- The Keg and I – will refill growlers with beer, cider or kombucha
- Vintage by Port Townsend Vineyards – located downtown, fills/refills swing-top growlers with Discovery wines: red, white, and rosé.
Oils and Vinegars and Other Bulk Liquid Items:
- Lively Olive – refills own bottles only, with a variety of vinegars and olive oils
- The Food Coop – self refill of any container you bring in (weigh it first). Red cooking wine, white cooking wine, balsamic vinegar, cider vinegar, rice wine, and cleaning vinegars. Sunflower oil, sesame oil, canola oil, olive oil, avocado oil, coconut oil, honey, tamari, shoyu, vanilla extract, peanut butter, almond butter, maple syrup, liquid aminos.
- Wilderbee Farm – takes back their (clean) honey jars and lavender soap bottles.
Dairy Products (deposit paid when purchased, and refunded when bottle is returned):
- Chimacum Corner Store has glass bottles from Straus Family Creamery.
- QFC in Port Hadlock has dairy products in glass jars from Alexandre Family Farm and Twin Brook Creamery
- QFC in Port Townsend has Twin Brook Creamery milk of various kinds in glass bottles.
- The Food Coop carries Straus Family Creamery organic products: milk, cream and half and half in glass bottles, and Flying Cow Creamery) yogurt in glass jars.
Are there other businesses in East Jefferson County that reuse or refill glass containers, or carry bulk items often purchased in glass? Let us know at admin@l2020.org.