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Additional Resources
- Free recycling assistance to businesses
The Recycle at Work program provides free technical recycling assistance to businesses. It is a collaborative effort between several cities and counties in the Portland metropolitan area.
- Buyer'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.
- Green Catering
From paper plates and plastic serving trays to leftover food, catered events often create a lot of waste. These simple suggestions will help you reduce waste at your catered events, conferences and meetings.
- Construction industry recycling toolkit
To help contractors and developers recycle construction debris, Metro has developed this toolkit for the web. This guide lists recycling facilities and their distance from the construction site and descriptions of accepted materials, and includes maps.
- Who collects curbside recycling and garbage?
Franchised or licensed hauling companies, regulated by local government agencies, provide curbside recycling, garbage and yard debris collection in all jurisdictions in the Metro region. In franchised areas, recycling services are included in the garbage rate. Portland’s commercial system allows customers to choose among permitted haulers in the city and negotiate rates for service. Call the agencies listed here, or use Metro's online search tool to find haulers.
- Find a recycler
Find out where to take your recyclables, how far the recycler is from your location, descriptions of accepted materials, helpful maps and details.
- Who's my garbage hauler?
Find the name and phone number of the garbage, recycling and compost hauler for any location in the Metro region.
- Where to take your garbage and recycling
Metro's two transfer stations accept trash and recyclables from citizens, businesses and commercial waste haulers. Hazardous waste facilities are next to these stations. This page includes rates and fees, and how to prepare a load.
- Metro solid waste and recycling system overview
Services and facilities that support the tri-county area. Metro is responsible for planning and managing the recycling and disposal of solid waste generated in the region.
- Donate!
Metro connects businesses with food rescue programs in the tri-county area. Your business can easily donate good-quality leftover food items that cannot be sold.
- Small-business hazardous waste program
Metro collects hazardous waste from business known as conditionally exempt generators (CEGs) that generate small amounts of hazardous waste.
- Managing Garbage and Recycling in the Region
Wondering where the garbage for 1.4 million people goes? Find out how Metro guides the region’s garbage and recycling systems and works to reduce waste.