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Portland, Oct 6: Recycle Your Plastic Items

October 3rd, 2007

From PortlandOnline: 

Master Recyclers will collect plastic material that cannot be recycled curbside. 

Saturday, October 6, 2007, 9 am to 2 pm at:
PCC Sylvania, 12000 SW 49th, Lot 10
Westview High School, 4200 NW 185th, North parking lot

Recyclers should rinse and separate plastic into the following categories:

• Plastic bags (dry cleaning, store sacks).
• 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, DVDs, CDs, 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:

• Styrofoam block, Styrofoam peanuts, Styrofoam food trays or Styrofoam egg cartons even if they have a number
• “Biodegradable” plastic or plastic that says PLA 7 on the bottom (this is a contaminant for plastics recycling)
• Milk jugs
• Plastic with metal inside (no car seats/highchairs)
• VHS or cassette tapes
• PVC pipe
• Food-contaminated or dirty plastic

For more information, click here.

Thanks EnviroMom for the heads up!

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