Healthy Waterville will be hosting the Purple Bag Savings Challenge on Thursday, May 11 at the Downtown Waterville Farmers’ Market as part of Maine Composts Week.

Contestants will be given a purple bag full of many household waste items. Before they start they will be see the bag’s weight. Participants will be timed as they sort the items into the correct bins to correspond with how the city’s recycling program works, including paper, plastic, compostables, returnables, and cardboard. The bag will be reweighted. Contestants will guess within 5+/- pounds how much they reduced their purple bag’s weight.

Kathleen Kenny children’s librarian at the Waterville Public Library will be reading a children’s book about composting during this market as well. (Time to be determined.)