Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative (OBRC), the operational entity behind Oregon’s Bottle Bill, is announcing efforts to develop an innovative refillable beer bottle program in partnership with Oregon breweries. As a national leader in environmental initiatives and craft brewing, Oregon represents an ideal setting to create a...
AOR Blog
01-31-2017
Recycling Today reports that AOR member Agilyx is set to develop a styrene monomer production plant in Oregon.
The facility will use its proprietary commercial pyrolysis system to convert polystyrene scrap into a liquid monomer.
01-27-2017
Despite the cold weather, the commodity markets were warm.
Atypical for this time of year, the demand for paper grades has stayed strong. Generally, when we are coming out of the holiday season (high consumption months), generation of recovered materials exceeds demand; putting downward pressure on pricing. This year, we...
01-25-2017
On January 18, 2017 the Oregon Environmental Quality Commission (EQC) adopted proposed rules that:
Revise wastesheds’ voluntary recovery goals, which the proposed rules would clarify are no longer mandatory or a basis for DEQ enforcement. Describe DEQ’s methodology for measuring progress towards SB 263’s statewide food...
01-24-2017
After serving six months as AOR’s Membership Chair, Holly Stirnkorb announced at our December meeting that she would stepping down at the end of the month. Holly works for the Oregon DEQ and her dedication to her work forced a difficult decision to resign from the Board. During her time on the Board, Holly was instrumental in...