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Recycle at work
Garbage and recycling › Recycle at work
Whether you work at an office, a restaurant or a construction site, Metro can help you reduce, reuse and recycle. Plus, find out how to donate leftover food, sell your salvaged materials and save money on your garbage bill.
Businesses play a critical role in helping our region reach its recovery goal of 64 percent of solid waste by the year 2009. By reducing waste, you save natural resources and energy, prevent pollution, and help extend the life of our landfills.
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Metro's Recycle at Work resource center
Metro's Recycle at Work resource center offers free tools and assistance to help businesses reduce, reuse and recycle. Request a free on-site evaluation by a business recycling specialist. Find out how to start or expand a waste prevention or recycling program. Get free desk-side recycling containers, posters, presentations and other educational materials. Visit RecycleatWork.com
Fork It Over! food donation
Fork It Over! is Metro's food donation program to reduce hunger and waste in the Portland, Oregon region. Join the many area businesses that have committed to reducing waste and fighting hunger...More
Construction salvage and recycling
Construction salvage and recycling are good for business and for the environment. Metro offers practical tools to help contractors, architects and developers save money, earn “green” buildling credits and keep building materials out of the landfill...More
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Get rid of unused paint
Find out how to prevent, reduce, recycle or safely dispose of common paint wastes to protect water quality, fish, wildlife and people...More
Small business hazardous waste program
If your business generates small amounts of hazardous waste, you may be eligible to dispose of hazardous waste at a designated Metro facility via the Conditionally Exempt Generator program...MoreBuyer's guide to recycled products
Use this guide to find more than 1,000 recycled-content products that are available retail and/or wholesale, at stores, by catalog and online. Metro developed this guide to help businesses easily find products made from recycled content...More
Compost your food waste
If your business is in Portland, you can now contract with waste haulers to collect food waste and food-soiled paper for composting. The City of Portland provides technical assistance, training for your employees, communications and marketing materials and more. For businesses outside Portland, contact your local government solid waste and recycling department for information about potential composting in your area... Visit Portland Composts!
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Fork It Over!
Find out how your business can easily donate good-quality leftover food items to a nearby food rescue program. It's safe, simple and the right thing to do! More
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Get free education and assistance to make it easy for you to start, maintain or improve a waste prevention and recycling system that works for your business. Visit RecycleAtWork.org
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Construction salvage and recycling toolkit
Metro offers practical tools to help contractors, architects and developers save money, earn green building credits and keep building materials out of the landfill. More