Saturday, May 17th 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. at two locations:
Lake Oswego: Co-hosted by Shorenstein Realty Services LP and Autodesk, Inc.
5400 Meadows rd. MAP
PCC Rock Creek PCC Rock Creek Campus
17705 NW Springville rd lot D MAP
To receive emails about future event dates and locations, please contact us.
Bring those hard to recycle plastics, Master Recyclers will collect it, and Agri-Plas Inc., a recycler located in Brooks, Oregon, will recycle the plastic into new products. Master Recyclers sponsored eight similar plastic roundup events and reused and recycled over 90 tons of plastic with the help of almost 8,800 community residents who participated.
There are many places to recycle plastics year round: to find a location near you contact Metro at (503)234-3000 or use Metro’s Find a Recycler site.
Please rinse and sort your plastics into the following categories before the event:
• Plastic bags (dry cleaning, grocery store sacks, bubble wrap, cereal liners, mylar, six pack rings, tortilla chip bags)
• Plant containers and trays (please knock dirt out ahead of time)
• Please rinse and separate plastics with numbers by each number separately (bags and plant containers go in the first two categories, no styrofoam food trays even if they have a number).
• Miscellaneous plastics without numbers (Bottle caps, drink lids, DVD's, CD’s, CD cases, straws, lawn/patio furniture, kids\' toys (think slides!), pet igloos, laundry baskets, kiddy pools, & more. . .bring it, we'll try to take it)
Reusable Plastic Items. - We especially love buckets! Master Recyclers label and redistribute them to encourage residents to keep glass separate from other recyclables. Be sure and drop by this section to see if you might find a useful item you would like to bring home.
We cannot accept
• no Styrofoam block, Styrofoam peanuts, Stryofoam food trays or Styrofoam egg cartons even if they have a number
• no "biodegradable" plastic or plastic that says PLA 7 on the bottom (this is a contaminant for plastics recycling)
• no milk jugs
• no plastic with metal inside (no car seats/highchairs, handpumps for spray bottles and lotion have a metal spring in them)
• no VHS or cassette tapes
• no PVC pipe
• no small toys
• no food-contaminated or dirty plastic
• no plastic that contained motor oil, herbicides or pesticides (a thin layer of dried paint is okay)
There are items we cannot accept that others can!
• Any plastic with a neck can be recycled in curbside programs.
• Many mailing/shipping businesses reuse polystyrene packing peanuts. Some may also accept the cornstarch peanuts as well, if clean and dry.
• Polyethelene foam pads are accepted at Far west fibers
• PVC piping can be accepted by Northwest Polymers
Call (503)234-3000 for the latest informaiton on where to bring non-curbside recycling.
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