AOR Blog

03-20-2017

HB 2746 helps remove confusion, reduce waste, in 'Bottle Bill' increase

SALEM – The Oregon Senate passed a bill today to smooth the process and reduce potential waste when the 5-cent bottle deposit rises to 10 cents at stores statewide on April 1.

House Bill 2746 – which passed the on a 23-4 vote on the Senate...

03-20-2017

OREGON – Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative (OBRC) is partnering with Double Mountain Brewery & Tap Room...

03-15-2017

​AOR's biggest challenge is to make sure we’re providing collaborative and substantive learning opportunities to members. In order to do that we need support through memberships, sponsorships and event attendance.

Another way to support AOR is to become involved in one of our committees. Committee members connect with...

03-10-2017

This month there were continued improvements in cardboard, mixed paper, homogenous plastic grades, and ferrous metals.

Definitely, a good month across many of the commodity grades, and the improvements continue the trend of rising values for comingle materials. 

Of course, there are some discussions that markets...

03-07-2017

Nina Goodrich 
Director of the Sustainable Packaging Coalition and Executive Director of GreenBlue
Keynote Address, Wednesday, June 7th 1:00pm

Nina  is an internationally recognized leader in the packaging industry. Formerly Program Director for PAC NEXT in Toronto, and founder of the consultancy...

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