The Board of SWANA Oregon Chapter extends an invitation to you for our Spring Tour! Join us as we make the voyage south to visit our friends in Southern Oregon.

We will have a chartered bus leaving from Portland on the morning of May 18th, with stops to pick up members in Salem and Eugene. Upon arrival at the Dry Creek Landfill in the Rogue Valley, we will tour the landfill, gas-to-energy facility, as well as the Rogue Compost operation. Additional facility tours and/or presentations are currently in development.

Learn about the latest developments in Household Hazardous Waste/Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity Generators/Very Small Quantity Generators management and education, product stewardship, chemical policy, and safer products. The conference will include training on a variety of relevant topics, technical sessions addressing hot topics in our field, and interesting facility tours.

Come check out the ingenuity of our community's very own re-usable material designers! Hosted by St. Vincent de Paul in collaboration with MECCA and BRING, this event will include three upcycled design challenges. St. Vincent de Paul's Designer Challenge, MECCA's Object Afterlife, and BRING's Product Design Challenge. Vote on your favorite pieces, enjoy great food and drinks, and enter the raffle! Celebrate Earth Day with some of Eugene's top designers and best recyclers!

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality encourages Oregonians throughout the state to take part in a nationwide effort to collect unused, unwanted, or expired medications so they can be disposed of properly.

Each year, over $1 billion worth of leftover drugs are thrown in the trash, flushed, or relegated to medicine cabinets. Removing unwanted prescription drugs from the home reduces their availability to addicts, children, and pets, and prevents them from being thrown in the garbage or down the drain where they enter the environment and contaminate our waterways. Drug take-back programs — collection receptacles and mail-back envelopes — provide residents with a convenient way to safely dispose of leftover medications.

Please save the date Friday, May 5, 2017 for the Container Recycling Institute's 2017 Annual Legislative Update Webcast. We have seen unprecedented numbers of bills introduced this legislative season in multiple states.

This presentation gathers representatives from Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Iowa to discuss the efforts to enact, expand, or repeal container deposit and packaging laws around the country.