DEQ Waste Prevention Campaigns Now Available
Submitted by AOR
3
Dec
2017
Oregon News
Oregon DEQ Publishes 9 New Literature Summaries
Submitted by David Allaway
1
Dec
2017
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and Oregon Sustainability Board have just published nine new literature summaries addressing the environmental impacts of a variety of foods and food-related issues. The literature summaries are designed to help growers, producers, retailers, and large purchasers reduce the environmental impacts of foods.
DEQ statement on emerging recycling changes
Submitted by AOR
25
Nov
2017
Oregon Department of Environmental Quality is following the proposed China ban of post-consumer plastics and unsorted paper closely and is engaged in ongoing conversations with local governments, collectors, processors and industry representatives. Given the major market disruption this is causing, DEQ and its partners are preparing for different possibilities and developing strategies to maintain recycling collection and processing where possible as we update those systems to recycle more effectively in the future.
Business Offering: GO Box PDX
Submitted by AOR
16
Nov
2017
Opportunity to own a sustainable, bike-based, award- winning, mission-driven, local Portland business.
Republic Services Announces $99 Million Economic Impact in Oregon
Submitted by AOR
6
Oct
2017
Company's Tax Revenue Impact is $8.5 Million Annually
PR Newswire
PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 6, 2017
PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Republic Services of Oregon announced today the results of a study of its annual economic impact in the state. The study measures the direct and indirect economic impact of the Company's subsidiaries and operations statewide in 2016, including tax revenues, payroll expenditures and supplier purchases, as well as multiplier effects when income is reinvested into the local economy.
Republic Services is no longer accepting plant-based plastic silverware and cups as compostable
Submitted by AOR
14
Sep
2017
Despite ban on plant-based service-ware in their compost bins, local businesses continue to use them, stating they're still a better choice, even if they end up in the garbage.
September is National Preparedness Month!
Submitted by AOR
1
Sep
2017
September is National Preparedness Month. FEMA has a wealth of information on their website to help get you and your communities prepared for when disaster strikes. Here in Oregon, AOR has teamed up with ORRA to present two case studies on being prepared for whatever emergency may arise.
An Office Case Study: City of Portland, Bureau of Planning and Sustainability
$64M Tissue Plant Opens in Scappoose, adds 80 Jobs to Economy
Submitted by AOR
24
Jul
2017
Cascades, a Canadian based-multinational company specializing in tissue products with a big emphasis on using recycled materials, opened a tissue conversion plant in Scappoose, adding 80 jobs in rural Columbia County earlier this month.
DEQ Offers Micro-Grants to Small Reuse/Repair Businesses and Organizations
Submitted by AOR
18
Jul
2017
In December, Oregon DEQ published a Reuse, Repair and Product Lifespan Extension Strategic Plan, which is available for download on the DEQ website. Many of you provided input to help develop that plan, which was much appreciated.
DEQ Materials Management Grants Open: Expands grant opportunities for the prevention, reuse or recovery of solid waste
Submitted by AOR
18
Jul
2017
Release Date: Friday, July 14, 2017