New house, new trash and recycling service. Since I try to be green, but often have trouble find where to recycle, recorded here:
Several different relevant websites:
- City of Portland, http://www.portlandonline.com
- Annoyingly, Portland's web pages use non-human-intelligible URLs, like ?c=41467. I hate this!
- Rates and service: http://www.portlandonline.com/bps/index.cfm?c=41467
- Schedule: http://www.portlandonline.com/bps/index.cfm?c=54938
- Seasonal: http://www.portlandonline.com/bps/index.cfm?c=41471
- Xmas tree: http://www.portlandonline.com/bps/index.cfm?c=41471&a=109113
- basically, can put whole tree out on curb 4$/6$>8 feet
- or cut into pieces, in green compost bin, or separate bundles for 3.75$
- Waste Management, http://wmnorthwest.com/portland
- Lists of what can and cannot be taken are on web pages, although not all in one place
- Garbage: http://www.portlandonline.com/bps/index.cfm?c=55401
- Recycling: http://wmnorthwest.com/portland/recycling.html, http://www.portlandonline.com/bps/index.cfm?c=44752
- no plastic lids, no plastic bags
- Compost: http://wmnorthwest.com/portland/yardwaste.html, http://www.portlandonline.com/bps/index.cfm?c=47246
- most food waste, but not packaging
- most yard waste
- no plastic bags
- no pet waste
- Tough Stuff
- Plastic bags - NOT curbside. Recycle depots, some grocery stores
- Styrofoam blocks - ??? - Curbside trash (but often too big, e.g. for a big package) :-(
- Styrofoam packing peanuts - UPS. Not Fedex. Not recycling depots. Curbside trash.
- Electronic - NOT curbside. Some recycling depots
- Pet poop - trash
- Waste Management's "Think Green" program, http://thinkgreenfromhome.com/
- for stuff that doesn't get picked up curbside
- call to ask for mail-back boxes for
- batteries, 19.95$ / 4 lb
- lightbulbs (incandscent, CFL, and LED), 19.95$ / 13
- actually, web page implies only needed for CFL, mercury.
- medical waste (e.g. diabetes blood test kits, lancets, and/or needles and syringes), 45-55$
- curbside, by special arrangement, an option in Portland
- big fluorescent tubes, 69.95$ / circa 16 bulbs