Recycling
Recycle your Holiday Tree
As our Deschutes County Knott Landfill continues to fill up (it is anticipated to be full by 2029), we want to do our best to keep what we can out…
Read MoreUpdate on Rethink Waste Project’s multifamily recycling project!
Remember WAY back in 2019, that The Environmental Center’s Rethink Waste Project won a grant from DEQ? Well, despite all the challenges this year has brought we’ve still been able…
Read More5 quick tips: how to reduce waste during construction
The EPA estimates that 548 million tons of construction and demolition (C/D) debris (concrete, asphalt, steel, wood products, drywall, brick and clay tile, etc) was generated in the U.S. in…
Read MoreBuckingham 4th Graders Visit Knott Landfill
(Pictured above: Our lovely Sustainability Educators having a little fun during the field trip!) Earlier this month, 4th grade students from Buckingham Elementary took a field trip to Knott Landfill.…
Read MoreRethink Waste and The Environmental Center Won a Grant for 2020!
We are so excited to announce we are one of the lucky 2019 Oregon DEQ Materials Management grant recipients! You can read all about our project and see who else…
Read MoreRethink Waste Over the Holidays
It is estimated that between Thanksgiving and New Year’s, more than 1 million tons of additional waste is generated EACH WEEK nationwide. And that doesn’t even take into account all…
Read MoreRecycling might not be the answer by itself.
But it is part of the solution. Recycling! A positive and negative buzz word these days. I think about it as being an alternative to throwing something away. But interestingly,…
Read MoreTalkin’ Trash: July’s City Club Forum, Round 2 questions!
Below is a continuation from a previous blog from July’s City Club event Talkin Trash. More questions from you: answered! Denise and I tag-teamed these again. Do you have more…
Read MoreTalkin’ Trash: July’s City Club Forum
In the middle of July, the Rethink Waste Project was invited to come present at the monthly City Club Forum. Our own Denise Rowcroft did an amazing job talking all…
Read MoreSingle Use Plastics and their Impacts. Can we change it?
Plastics are a problem Is the image of a sea turtle with a single use straw up its nose or a beach completely blanketed in plastic trash burned into your…
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