Earth Day in Bellevue

Save the Date!
In Bellevue, we have the following initiatives we lead or support and at the Earth Day event, we centerpiece and educate the public and urge other city’s to also take part in similar efforts.

Bee City USA: Partners include Citi Sprouts, Bellevue Native Plant Society, Milkweed Matters, Pollinator Alliance of the Heartland, Bellevue Tree Board and others.

Green Schools: Partners include Bellevue East and West High Schools, Omaha South High School, Bryan High School, Omaha Students for Sustainability and the Zoo Academy. In 2025, Students for Sustainability hosting the first clothing swap!

Zero Waste: The City of Bellevue takes the lead with facilitating and educating about the need to increase waste diversion in Bellevue. Since 2015, our recycling rate has increased from 7% to 18% but we are not stopping there. In 2025, the city is creating a new rollout promote residential recycling, and household and yard waste composting. We continue to promote orange bag recycling which Bellevue has been doing since 2016 and currently the contents are being processed into lumber by Solutions Plastics in Omaha. Green Bellevue partners with Hillside Solutions with the lunchroom composting at Bellevue East and West. And we promote the Compost Club for residential compost drop off.

If you are interested in coordinating or volunteering for the 2026 Earth Day in Bellevue, please go to our website to sign up! https://www.greenbellevue.org/earthdayinbellevue

You may also like the following events from Green Bellevue:

• This Sunday, 15th February, 01:00 pm, Native Plants 101 - Planting for Monarch Butterflies in Bellevue
• Next month, 8th March, 01:00 pm, Native Plants 101 - Famous Gardens & the Native Plants that Grace Them in Bellevue
• Next month, 14th March, 11:00 am, Native Plants 101 - Outstanding Native Shrubs for Nebraska in Bellevue