Recycling

Scientists are finding plastic pollution in every nook and cranny of the planet. Here are some of the ways people are trying to reduce it.

Oregon’s bottle deposit system is recycling more containers than ever before despite major disruptions in global recycling markets.

Recycling in Oregon has hit some bumps over the past few years, with local paper mills closing and China deciding not to import used paper and plastic any longer. 

Refillable beer bottles from seven craft breweries are popping up on store shelves across Oregon as the state leads an effort to bring back a more sustainable way of drinking beer.

New restrictions on shipping recyclables to China are forcing the Northwest to rethink what belongs in our recycling bins.

Five months after China stopped accepting contaminated recycling, regulators and the industry are hard at work trying to clean up the stream and find markets for whatever clean material they can. 

In July, seven Oregon craft breweries will start selling beer in reusable glass bottles in the country’s first statewide refillable beer bottle program.

Northwest recycling companies are scrambling to find markets for our paper and plastic as China cracks down on waste imports.

It may soon become a lot more difficult to recycle some items. Also, new data on Multnomah County's homeless population and striking union workers reach a contract agreement with Lane County.

Washington recyclers are worried they could soon have no place to send discarded paper and plastics. China has decided the U.S. is letting food and garbage contaminate too much of its recyclables.