Sponsors
Sustainable Oregon offers an array of sponsorship opportunities that not only promote your organization but also demonstrate your commitment to AOR and the growth of the materials management industry in Oregon.
Download the Sponsorship Brochure to learn more about our opportunities, and how your sponsorship supports AOR's mission and work all year long!
After reviewing the brochure, complete our Sponsorship Form to lock in your support!
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Waste Connections provides superior waste collection and recycling services to communities and businesses throughout Oregon while working toward sustainable operations in the communities we serve. We offer a wide array of recycling services including residential and commercial curbside recycling, food scrap/compost collection, municipal recycling program pilot projects, and electronics recycling depots. |
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Metro plans and oversees the region's solid waste system – working with local communities and industry partners to reduce waste while managing garbage, recycling, and composting in a safe, healthy, and cost-effective manner. Metro owns and operates two garbage and recycling stations and hazardous waste facilities. A hotline and an online search tool help people recycle everything from batteries to leftover paint to construction debris. Education and outreach programs offer tips and tools for saving resources and protecting clean air and water at home and on the job. |
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The Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative is the industry steward of Oregon’s nationally recognized beverage container redemption system and the operator of the BottleDrop network. On behalf of the beverage industry, OBRC helps Oregonians conveniently redeem and recycle more than 2 billion containers every year, dramatically reducing litter in Oregon’s special places and boosting the state’s recycling outcomes. |
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Oregon DEQ's Materials Management Program is guided by the 2050 Vision, which states: "Oregonians in 2050 produce and use materials responsibly, conserving resources, protecting the environment, and enhancing well-being." Materials management takes a holistic view of environmental impacts across the full life cycle of materials, as well as actions that can be taken to reduce those impacts. It includes resource extraction and use of recovered materials, the design and production of materials, their use, and end-of-life management, including solid waste disposal and recovery. |
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At Republic Services, we are committed to providing reliable and responsible recycling and waste disposal solutions day in and day out. We work to ensure safe and dependable solutions for your home, business, and community. |
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Swire Coca-Cola is the bottling franchisee of The Coca-Cola Company in 13 states across the Western USA. Swire Coca-Cola's mission is to be a constant and true advocate for our people, our customers, our partners, our community, and our planet. |
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Thompson's Sanitary Service is a third generation family-owned hauler servicing Newport, Oregon. We offer curbside recycling, mixed compostables, and trash service as well as variety of services including depots, around waste disposal, and recycling. |
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B&B Leasing Company owns and operates three regional garbage companies: Gladstone Disposal, Molalla Sanitary Services, and Oregon City Garbage. Originally founded in 1935, the family-owned, family-oriented solid waste collection company has grown from a single truck to a fleet of over 40 specialized collection trucks, servicing over 22,000 families and businesses within greater Clackamas County. |
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Circular Action Alliance (CAA) is a U.S. Producer Responsibility Organization (PRO) dedicated to implementing effective Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) laws for paper and packaging. As a nonprofit, producer-led organization, CAA is committed to helping producers comply with EPR laws, delivering harmonized best-in-class compliance services and working with governments, businesses, and communities to reduce waste and recycle more. |
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Clackamas County's mission is to ensure high-quality public service is provided to citizens so they can enjoy livable, healthy, safe, and sustainable communities. Clackamas County Resource Conservation & Solid Waste supports and coordinates sustainability activities within and throughout Clackamas County, and is a resource for the community. We also provide introductory training on sustainability to all employees. |
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AMP is applying AI-powered sortation at scale to modernize the world's recycling infrastructure and enable a world without waste. AMP gives waste and recycling leaders the power to harness AI to reduce labor costs, increase resource recovery, and deliver more reliable operations. With hundreds of deployments across North America, Asia, and Europe, AMP’s technology offers a transformational solution to waste sortation and changes the fundamental economics of recycling.. |
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The City of Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability (BPS) develops solutions to make Portland more equitable, healthy, prosperous, and resilient. Through long-range planning, climate action, waste management, Smart Cities, and the Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund, we build a better future for all. |
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COR Disposal & Recycling is a Portland-based solid waste, recycling, and innovation company dedicated to diverting waste from landfills by using sustainable practices to stand up a circular economy. |
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EFI is a processor of OCC and commingled recyclables collected by licensed refuse/recycling haulers throughout the state of Oregon. |
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Gresham Sanitary Service has been serving Gresham and Portland since 1948. We collect and transfer solid waste. |
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The Waste Management Division of Lane County Public Works operates the Short Mountain Landfill and 15 transfer stations throughout Lane County. Our mission is to "provide safe, responsible, and economical recycling and disposal services while respecting the environment and communities we serve." In addition to waste disposal and recycling services at these sites, we provide safe disposal options for hazardous waste and other materials. Lane County collaborates with local partners to offer education, tools, and resources that residents and businesses can use to reduce waste, conserve resources, and live more |
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The Mattress Recycling Council (MRC) is a nonprofit organization that operates recycling programs in states that have passed mattress recycling laws: California, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and now Oregon. Founded by the bedding industry, MRC has recycled more than 15 million mattresses since 2015 and now recycles nearly 2 million mattresses each year. For more information about MRC, go to MattressRecyclingCouncil.org. To learn how to recycle your mattress or to find a collection location or event near you, visit ByeByeMattress.com. |
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The Recycling Partnership is a team of experts, practitioners, and thought leaders who are deeply invested in protecting our natural resources, creating more sustainable communities, and delivering on our mission of building a better recycling system. We work alongside communities, companies, and policymakers to enact meaningful change across the entire recycling industry. |
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Resource Recycling Systems (RRS) is a sustainability consulting firm specializing in circular economy and materials management solutions for businesses, communities, and the broader future. With four decades of experience, RRS’s team of diverse experts delivers comprehensive services focused on reducing waste, enhancing recycling processes, and minimizing environmental impacts across supply chains. Serving North American and global markets—including MRFs, recyclers, brands, manufacturers, government, and institutions—RRS is dedicated to driving climate and economic prosperity for all. |
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Southern Oregon Sanitation is a family-owned and operated company with over 75 years of dedication to waste management services in our community. |
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WM is North America's leading provider of comprehensive waste management environmental services. We partner with our customers and the communities we serve to manage and reduce waste at each stage from collection to disposal, while recovering valuable resources and creating clean, renewable energy. |
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The Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) is an international nonprofit and the only North American organization focused exclusively on improving recycling for plastics. APR’s tools and resources help companies design packaging that can be recycled, support innovations that overcome existing recycling challenges, and encourage stable and reliable markets for post-consumer recycled content. |
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Astro-Nought is a phone-based digital recycling assistant, launching a zero waste, zero contamination future. |
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Eco-Products®, a Novolex® brand and certified B Corp, is a leading provider of foodservice packaging made from renewable, recycled, and reusable resources. Eco-Products offers packaging with real environmental benefits, works with customers to improve composting and recycling, and collaborates with the broader industry to shift how businesses and consumers think about and manage waste. With the goal of zero waste as part of the company mission, Eco-Products is using business as a force for good. |
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The Lubricants Packaging Management Association (LPMA) powered by Interchange 360 was founded by five leading petroleum companies with a purpose of providing EPR compliance options for its members and supporting the development of circular material management solutions for their petroleum-based and related products and packaging. A registered nonprofit, LPMA powered by Interchange 360’s directive is to provide the producers of petroleum and automotive products with sustainable, transparent, and cost-effective support for their EPR compliance needs and their circular economy objectives. |
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Pride Disposal & Recycling Company is family owned and operated and provides innovative solid waste and recycling services for homes and businesses. Pride works with Sherwood, Tigard, King City, Beaverton, Durham, Hillsboro, and Washington County communities to create safe, clean neighborhoods and a sustainable environment for future |
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The Department of Solid Waste oversees the management of waste in Deschutes County. We take pride in providing a safe place for residents to dispose, recycle, and compost those materials. Deschutes County supports many collection events to help divert waste from the landfill. We provide support to the Environmental Center's Rethink Waste program focusing on waste reduction, repair, and reuse. As we look toward the future, we are woking on developing additional diversion facilities for recyclables, food waste, and construction and demolition materials. |
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MRM was founded in 2007 to bring manufacturers together to help provide convenient, environmentally responsible electronics recycling opportunities to consumers. MRM currently works with just under 50 manufacturers and provides environmental program management services across the U.S. and in Ontario, Canada. MRM has operated the largest independent e-waste compliance program in Oregon since the adoption of Oregon E-Cycles, and currently supports electronics recycling at over 150 sites in Oregon. |
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ORRA is a trade association of solid waste management companies and businesses that specialize in offering equipment and services important to the industry. ORRA was founded in 1965 to advance the efficiencies of collecting and processing recyclable materials and solid waste. We assist our members in dealing with issues of public concern regarding the health, environment, and quality of life within the communities which they serve. |
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Washington County Solid Waste & Recycling helps community members, property managers, and businesses sustainably manage materials to prevent waste, recycle, and dispose of garbage properly. We also regulate how garbage and recycling is collected, transported, stored, and disposed. |
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Cascadia Consulting Group is a small, majority women-owned consulting firm based in Seattle, Washington with an office in Oakland, California, and remote locations nationwide. Our team of nearly 100 staff works across sectors to advance environmental and social goals, collaborating across three core skill areas: research and analysis; planning and facilitation; and communications and engagement. We apply these skills collaboratively and impactfully across a wide range of topic areas, described below. Within these core teams, staff provide additional cross-cutting expertise related to equity, quality, accessibility, graphic design, GIS/mapping, language access, and event planning/logistics coordination to support quality, creativity, and innovation across a wide range of projects, delivering insight, strategy, and impact for clients and communities across North America. |
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D&O Garbage Service, Inc. provides garbage and recycling collection in Salem and Marion County. |
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Since 1964, Dahl & Dahl has been a family-owned business providing solid waste and recycling collection, processing, and transfer services in East and South Lincoln County, including the communities of Toledo, Siletz, Waldport, and Yachats. We employ over 50 people, many of whom grew up in this area. We are proud to serve the residents of and visitors to our part of the beautiful Oregon coast. |
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Far West Recycling (FWR) is a locally owned company founded in Beaverton, Oregon, in January 1980. FWR has grown along with the recycling industry to provide complete recycling solutions throughout the Northwest region. FWR recycles paper, plastic, metals, electronics, and glass at two RIOS-certified processing facilities in the Portland metro region. In addition, FWR operates a third location, Far West Metals (FWM). FWM is a RIOS/R2v3-certified facility that specializes in recycling metals and electronics. FWR manages a sales and marketing division that provides brokerage services for a vast variety of recyclable materials along the entire West Coast. |
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New Seasons Market is a friendly neighborhood grocery store that believes great-tasting, local food has the power to build community and enhance lives. From taking care of its staff, partners, neighborhoods, and the environment to growing a sustainable business, it’s doing what it loves with a commitment to cultivating a strong community centered around food. Founded in 2000 by three families and 50 friends in Portland, Oregon, New Seasons Market is now a team of nearly 2,700 passionate staff across 22 stores in Oregon and Washington, serving a unique mix of locally sourced and organic items, classic grocery favorites, and chef-made grab-and-go meal solutions. New Seasons Market is proud of its progressive values—from offering industry-leading compensation and benefits to committing 10 percent of its after-tax profits to the communities it serves. |
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As a trusted supplier of bale ties, box wire, and baling wire, Oregon Wire serves a wide range of industries, including recycling, grocery chains, retail establishments, and other major businesses across the Western United States. |
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The City of Gresham is a welcoming community of hard-working people where tradition and heritage meet innovation and opportunity in Oregon's fourth largest city. Located just minutes from iconic Mount Hood, Multnomah Falls and the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, the city of Portland, and Portland International Airport, Gresham’s location is ideal for families and businesses wanting to start something new and grow. Gresham’s residents care deeply about our heritage as a homestead and agricultural community and are committed to building a vibrant future. Today, Gresham is a dynamic, innovative, and rapidly growing city with a mutual desire and drive to thrive. In Gresham, we are family. |
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The City of Hillsboro is one of Oregon’s most diverse and dynamic cities, with a steadily growing population of just over 110,000. During the workday, more than 50,000 employees commute to Hillsboro by car, bicycle, bus, or MAX Light Rail train to work at companies such as Intel, Nike, and Genentech. |
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Madras Sanitary Service has been providing trash hauling and recycling services in Madras and Jefferson County since 1976. |
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Marion County Public Works serves the public to protect, promote, and enhance a positive quality of life in Marion County through innovative solid waste, parks, noxious weed, and water quality programs. |
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Mid-Valley Haulers Association (formerly Mid-Valley Garbage and Recycling Association) was formed in 1987 by the eight Marion County and West Salem garbage and recycling collectors. The purpose of this association is to work together on unified services across the county, collaborating on projects like education or community outreach and sharing practices to provide the best possible service to their customers. |
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North Lincoln Sanitary Service is North Lincoln County's waste hauling company. "Our family serving your family since 1966." |
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NW Natural is a distribution company that currently serves approximately two million people in more than 140 communities across the Pacific Northwest through 800,000 meters with one of the most modern pipeline systems in the nation. |
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Organically Grown Company (OGC) is one of the nation’s top wholesale distributors and marketers of fresh produce, with the largest dedicated, certified organic inventory in the U.S. OGC moves millions of pounds of organic produce through the supply chain, into the hands of grocers, restaurants and food manufacturers in the greater Northwest and beyond. We serve our customer partners from four hubs in the Pacific Northwest, and source from more than 350 organic vendors representing 1,000 farmers worldwide − our produce is available at its peak from where it grows best. As an independent, purpose-trust-owned company, we’re innovators in alternative ownership, a leader in the organic movement and driven by a passion for being good stewards of the planet, people and a just food system. In 2024, OGC was honored by our peers in the organic trade with the Organic Company of the Year award and recognized by Oregon Food Bank as a Changemaker of the Year for our support in ending hunger in the Northwest communities we serve. Giving back is part of our mission. Each year, we distribute 2.5% of net sales to nonprofits dedicated to a healthier planet and community. |
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Pacific Sanitation Inc. provides garbage and recycling collection services to Salem and Marion County. |
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With our three airports, three operating marine terminals, and five business parks, the Port of Portland creates jobs, helps local businesses grow, and helps attract quality employers to the state. |
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Rexius has been transforming organic materials into sustainable solutions since 1938. By diverting potential landfill material into regenerative resources, Rexius actively supports a circular economy, fosters healthy soil, and helps preserve local ecosystems. Their longstanding commitment to environmental stewardship, community engagement, and continuous innovation makes Rexius a trusted partner for organizations dedicated to sustainable advocacy. |
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From streamlining reuse operations to creating equitable programs in the waste materials management realm, Start Consulting Group is dedicated to making the world a better and more sustainable place. We are fueled by solving challenges and tackling tough projects. Our commitment is to racial justice, climate justice, and sustainability. We believe in creating positive partnerships and ensuring that all participants have a voice. We are purpose-driven, and always striving for significant outcomes. Contact us today to find out more about how we can help you with your equitable and sustainable materials management needs. |
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Sustainable Generation® stands at the forefront of composting innovation and is dedicated to reducing costs, streamlining processes, and upholding rigorous environmental standards. Our innovative SG Advanced Composting™ technology accelerates composting timelines while ensuring regulatory compliance through seamless tracking and reporting mechanisms, aligning with your commitment to environmental responsibility. Harnessing the power of our robust platform, clients achieve consistent, predictable, and reproducible results, mitigating regulatory risks and freeing up resources for other critical priorities. Our experienced team of developers, application engineers, compost owner-operators, and business development experts, with over 200 years of collective expertise, ensures tailored solutions and regulatory compliance for projects of any scale and location. We leverage a dependable global network of supply partners and technical consultants, instilling confidence in our clients about our capabilities. SG Advanced Composting™ technology incorporates the GORE® Cover, celebrated worldwide for its exceptional performance in composting food/yard waste, manure, digestate, and biosolids since its inception in 1998, with over 400 installations globally. With SG’s innovative approach, we can guarantee unmatched process control, minimal overall cost of ownership, and water and air quality protection, culminating in superior stabilized compost output. |
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Walker Garbage is a family business that recently celebrated our 75th year in business. We provide solid waste, compost, and recycling service in NW Portland. |
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