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Monica Samayoa/OPBOregon is on track to become the first state to launch a recycling program that holds producers accountable for their product packaging. -
Julia Shumway/Oregon Capital ChronicleThe Plastic Pollution and Recycling Modernization Act rules were approved by the Environmental Quality Commission to reduce waste from packaging.
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Reduce, reuse, recycle. We're pretty well along in the third of those, but not so organized on the first two. Rogue Valley Habitat for Humanity wants to鈥� -
Maybe you never knew where the stuff from your recycled bin ended up... until the recent news from China. China has taken a lot of stuff off the hands of鈥� -
March figures to be a very slow month at the bottle returns in Oregon. Because the first day of April, the money paid for each bottle doubles, from a鈥� -
Younger people--say 25 and under--probably can't remember a time without recycle bins next to the trash cans. The rest of us have had to get used to鈥�
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Maybe you've had one of those conversations while helping a friend prepare a meal: "do you compost?" Not everybody saves food scraps for composting. And鈥� -
Our VENTSday segment is meant to put anybody and everybody on the air with cogent comments about topics in the news. But not everybody has easy access. So鈥� -
We do right by the planet when we don't chuck all of our refuse in the trash can. But there's certainly a level of complexity to recycling. Can pizza鈥� -
We can certainly save a bunch of energy and money using modern light bulbs. They are uniformly more efficient than the old incandescent bulbs. And--in鈥� -
The explosion of electronic devices means a constant churn in many households: replace the older TV/computer monitor/cell phone with a new one. Then what鈥� -
From memories to mulch鈥� our Christmas trees can live on, in a sense, once we're done with them. In many communities, the beginning of the year is鈥� -
A few minutes on the lips, and then鈥� where?Where does that plastic bottle go when you're done with it? Often to a landfill, even in a recycling-heavy鈥�
