Member Spotlight

What is the name of your business or organization?  Mattress Recycling Council

What does your business/organization do? We are the stewardship organization that will bring mattress recycling throughout Oregon!

Tell us about your business/organization's recycling/sustainability practices. MRC is one of the largest mattress recycling organizations in the world. Since 2015, we have recycled over 10 million mattresses and box springs and look forward to implementing OR SB1576.

What is the name of your business or organization? Oregon State University Materials Management

What does your business/organization do? Help OSU achieve its carbon reduction and broader sustainability goals by preventing, reusing and recycling while advancing justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) throughout the work we do.

Rick had been a long-time AOR member and Board member and has just rejoined our ranks! Welcome back, Rick!

What is your name? Rick Paul

Where do you work and what do you do?  Retired, but volunteer board member of Rim Rock Recycling in Burns, Oregon

Tell us how you embrace recycling/sustainability into your home or workplace? I recycle whatever is possible in a distant recycling area. We have limited items for recycling.

Welcome to AOR's newest individual member, Stacy Ludington!

What is your name? Stacy Ludington

Where do you work and what do you do? Clackamas County - Sustainability Analyst Community Outreach and Education

Tell us how you enbrace recycling/sustainability into your home or workplace? Basically what I do.

What motivates you to recycle and live sustainably? Climate change

Welcome new member Brandon Schubmehl!

Where do you work and what do you do?

I am a student at Oregon State University.

Tell us how you embrace recycling/sustainability in your home or workplace?

My family and I recycle all plastics, cardboards, and metals that are waste in our home and I have continued that on my own in college.

Welcome new member Debbie Miller!

Where do you work and what do you do?

I am a retired physician.

Tell us how you embrace recycling/sustainability in your home or workplace?

We shop responsibly with upstream and downstream waste in mind and reduce, reuse, and recycle as much as we can.

What motivates you to recycle and live sustainably?

Welcome new student member Hannah Carleson!

Name: Hannah Carleson

In what university/college are you currently enrolled, or if an AmeriCorps volunteer, where are you working/volunteering?

Portland State University

Tell us about your major or current career path.

What is the name of your business or organization? 

Waste-Free Advocates (formerly Recycling Advocates)

What does your business/organization do? 

We empower and connect Oregon communities to minimize overconsumption and waste.

Tell us about your business/organization's recycling/sustainability practices. 

What is your name? 

George Shaw

Where do you work and what do you do? 

Retired and ride bicycle.

Tell us how you embrace recycling/sustainability in your home or workplace? 

I want to teach my family and grandkids to recycle!

What motivates you to recycle and live sustainably? 

Grandkids

What is your name? Haley Robinson

Where do you work and what do you do? I work at Wells Fargo Bank as a Commercial Credit Analyst