Can the Plastic
An entrepreneurial couple capitalizes on the movement against single-use plastic by reinventing packaging for water.
- Published in Energy and Environment
What To Expect From Oregon’s Bag Ban
Oregon’s plastic bag ban takes effect Jan. 1. What Oregon grocers and shoppers can expect from the wide-sweeping legislation.
- Published in Energy and Environment
One country's trash is another country's...well, trash
China, once the largest importer of Oregon’s mixed paper and plastic recyclables, plans to stop buying these resources as of January 2018.
- Published in Energy and Environment
A conversation with Alando Simpson
The vice president of City of Roses Disposal & Recycling talks about the solid waste business, family values and a new generation of "inequity" refugees.
- Published in Must Reads
Foreclosure prevention program helps families
Nearly 6,000 Oregon families are awaiting word that they've qualified for aid from the Oregon Homeownership Stabilization Initiative.
- Published in High Five
A new DVD option
A Gresham businessman has entered the rapidly changing DVD rental business with KwikFlicks.
- Published in High Five
Contact Industries invests in future
Prineville's Contact Industries plant is installing its third "bag house" to replace two less efficient "cyclones."
- Published in High Five