AOR Blog
07-19-2016
Food accounts for nearly 30 percent of all household garbage going from the Metro area to the landfill. At the same time, more than 509,000 Oregonians are food insecure. Food is too valuable to waste. To address these issues, Washington County, City of Beaverton, and City of Gresham launched a residential food waste...
07-19-2016
ReClaim It! was started by Crackedpots. They recognized the need for a place where materials could be rescued from disposal. They created a place where the creative citizens of Portland can find unique materials. ReClaim It! is a nonprofit art and reuse retail store that salvages material from the Metro transfer station (...
07-13-2016
Thank you AOR members for giving me the opportunity to serve you through as the AOR chair! I have great appreciation for the AOR community, and I am humbly at your service.
Welcome to the Board Elizabeth Start, we’re excited to have both your experience in the hauling and now your current role at leading SCRAP is a...
07-12-2016
Inspiration often arrives in unexpected packages. See how five local artists - Erinn Kathryn, Hilary Pfeiffer, Dan Pillers, Amanda Triplett and Austin Turley - transformed an unpredictable stream of trash from the Metro Central transfer station into art.
Residents and businesses in the Portland metropolitan area...
07-10-2016
Don Waggoner, pioneer of Oregon's - and the nation's first - bottle bill, has passed away. The Oregonian reported his passing on July 10th, and his work on the bottle bill was...