A glimmer of recycled light February 2018

While we've all been adjusting to the new, stricter recycling guidelines in the greater Portland metro area, I did stumble on two bits of potential good news on the recycling front since I last posted. Thanks to my coworker Elden, who got a wild hair and googled that infernal "ethafoam" or PE foam I've complained about for years, we may have found an outlet for it!

Alas, it's not local but... it's a far site better than just dumping it in the landfill. You just cut it up, pack it into a box and ship it to your nearest facility that takes it per this site:

http://www.recyclepefoam.com/

Update 3/1/18: however, I'm sad to report our first shipment to the nearest facility to us listed there apparently did not exist and it was returned to us undeliverable. (Boy is this some well-traveled ethafoam now - it should have frequent flyer miles.) I don't know if the site is a front or hoax, or just out of date and we got unlucky. But you might try googling to see if the facilities listed really exist where they say they do. Details...

But on the Styrofoam front I found out that Agylix also takes all other clean #6 polystyrene plastics such as food clamshells, and other containers at their facility in Tigard on SW Hunziker also, not just the Styrofoam itself. This is also great news for those in the Portland, Oregon metro area. I've been able to take two loads there recently on my way to my doctor's office nearby.

It still behooves us all to reduce and reuse FIRST as much as possible, always.

Alas, my body snatchers have reared their ugly heads again, causing me to flare and have to set my part-time job down again, sniff sniff. But... not before re-inspiring me to revive this blog again for the win! I will try to keep it up going forward still as able.

Again, reducing and reusing are always best, even before recycling.

Cheers,

Jandroid