Recycling

The vast majority of mattresses in Oregon end up in landfills. State lawmakers approved a bill this year that’s meant to change that.

A group of friends in Olympia is starting an off-beat enterprise to tear apart and recycle pianos after noticing how online marketplaces are awash in pianos that aren’t selling at any price.

Several recommendations have surfaced after an audit looks at ways to improve Oregon’s groundbreaking Bottle Bill.

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.