2024 100 Best Green Workplaces in Oregon
Congratulations to the companies and nonprofits that made it onto the 2024 100 Best Green Workplaces in Oregon list.
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Shattered Glass
Oregon’s glass bottle recycling rates may be some of the highest in the nation, but with the state’s only glass recycling plant temporarily shuttered, where is the rest of our used glass being carted off to? And is glass recycling as green as environmentalists once thought?
Scott Hamlin Comes Full Circle
The founder and CEO of Looptworks has been working to find a way to “turn a T-shirt back into a T-shirt” since 2009. A Gresham facility opening this month makes it a reality.
California Sustainable Refuse Company Purchases Portland-Based Sunset Garbage Collection
The employee-owned Recology will add the Portland operation to its 136-community West Coast refuse-collection operation.
Can the Plastic
An entrepreneurial couple capitalizes on the movement against single-use plastic by reinventing packaging for water.
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.
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.
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.
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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.