AOR Blog

09-21-2020

What is your name? Lily Todd 

Where do you work and what do you do? Currently an unemployed teacher

Tell us how you embrace recycling/sustainability into your home or workplace? I am a Master Recycler so I embrace it everywhere... I have created programs at schools and most recently work with Gimre's Shoes to help...

09-11-2020

It is with a heavy heart that I write today to tell you that AOR has made the decision to delay the start of our conference by 2 weeks due to the overwhelming and devastating impacts the current wildfires are having across our beautiful state.

Many of our members and their employees have lost their homes and businesses,...

08-31-2020

Congratulations to AOR member Alando Simpson, CEO and owner of City of Roses Disposal & Recycling (COR), who was named a "Building Diversity Honoree" by the Daily Journal of Commerce. COR is a certified B-Corp with a diverse workforce and is the first waste company in the United States fully owned by African-Americans. The...

08-23-2020

What is your name? 

Paul Scott

Where do you work and what do you do? 

Retired. I worked in the recycling business in Eugene, OR from 1976-1986. After that, I worked in the visual effects industry for 20 years, and then transitioned into electric vehicles and solar energy. I write and speak about both even...

08-19-2020

Kamden Park, 2, has spent his summer riding his bike, jumping on his trampoline and swimming. His very favorite days, however, are the two times a week that Arrow Sanitary driver, Mark McKenzie comes by to pick up his family’s yard debris in Southeast Portland.

When Arrow Sanitary’s team found out that Kamden’s third...

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