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A group of business owners and residents in Portland is pushing for the Oregon Legislature to reconsider the cash refunds offered for recycling beverage containers.
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Legislation in Maine would mimic Oregon’s system of giving a recycling cooperative unclaimed deposits. California is mulling changes as well.
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Maybe you've had one of those conversations while helping a friend prepare a meal: "do you compost?" Not everybody saves food scraps for composting. And…
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Our VENTSday segment is meant to put anybody and everybody on the air with cogent comments about topics in the news. But not everybody has easy access. So…
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We do right by the planet when we don't chuck all of our refuse in the trash can. But there's certainly a level of complexity to recycling. Can pizza…
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We can certainly save a bunch of energy and money using modern light bulbs. They are uniformly more efficient than the old incandescent bulbs. And--in…
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The explosion of electronic devices means a constant churn in many households: replace the older TV/computer monitor/cell phone with a new one. Then what…
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From memories to mulch… our Christmas trees can live on, in a sense, once we're done with them. In many communities, the beginning of the year is…
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A few minutes on the lips, and then… where?Where does that plastic bottle go when you're done with it? Often to a landfill, even in a recycling-heavy…