Okay, I've broken down and started a new blog to handle the plethora of info I've been gathering about recycling in Portland, OR, where I'm becoming known as the Rabid Recycler. Until now I've been spamming my friends and acquaintances with periodic email updates, which I may still do, but this way you have a place to always refer to if you can't find that last email I sent with that new place that takes styrofoam, or whatever other tip I put out you're trying madly to remember.
A little about me - I'm a 41 y.o. Portland native who went away for about ten years in 1986, and came back in 1995 to nurse my ailing father. He has since passed (in 2000), and I've since re-established roots back in my home town, despite threatening to return to the seemingly more cosmopolitan Seattle area. Over time, it's become really clear to me I'm in a pretty cool place already: we have a wonderful diversity of cultures, and affordable food, music, arts, and lots of tree huggers who feed my soul with their hunger for good recycling information. So, I'm still here:).
I've always been a tree hugger, and avid recycler where ever I've gone, but I've become even more so in recent years, to the point I've started calling myself a "rabid recycler". (I'm on a garbage "diet" this year - I'm trying to get down to one bag/month. I still have a little way to go, though my new worm bin is helping;). And thus, a blog is born. My goal is to provide the latest and greatest (and most thorough) information on recycling as much as possible in the Portland, OR USA area at all times. Accordingly, I'll note I'm just a private citizen who recycles a lot and makes lots of phone calls toward that end, and so cannot guarantee the accuracy or up to date nature of the information I provide, as it is very dynamic, and new sources of recycling spring up even as others dissapear, almost weekly. No, I'm not a master recycler - yet. (See www.masterrecycler.org). But as the woman at Metro I just spoke with for over 20 minutes just told me - who cares. I'm doing all the right things. She also prodded me to start a website, and this is the result - a compromise. I hate keeping up websites, and I was worried that a blog was too "serial" in nature. I.e, if I had just spent an hour posting a bunch of current recycling information I'd spent several hours compiling (I research everything as much as possible before posting), I was worried about it getting buried "down stream" in the blog later. I.e, upon posting something else, I'd cause folks to have to search for the earlier info. (This is true of the great blog www.enviromom.com where her info on plastics recycling in Portland is now buried deep in her site beneath many great but less informative posts on life as a tree-hugging mom in Portland). So I hatched a solution: I will always publish the latest and greatest sources of recycling for as many categories as I can think of with every single post. Or, at least, every other post;). So you don't have to search much at all to find it. That's my goal anyway. We'll see how this goes. Accordingly, I'm going to post my first update on my latest findings about corn-based plastics next. Happy recycling - Jan
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