recycling

A Lane County food waste and recycling project has hit a few setbacks: The county’s building permit was rejected and one trash company has diverted thousands of tons of garbage and revenue, to its own landfill.

A statewide program that launched this year keeps a bulky and problematic item out of Oregon landfills: mattresses.

Recycling facilities in Oregon are preparing for some updates, and recyclers may want to start saving up some plastic items.

Lane County Waste Reduction and NextStep Recycling are holding an electronics recycling contest for Lane County Schools.

Oregon is on track to become the first state to launch a recycling program that holds businesses financially accountable for the packaging waste they produce.

On Tuesday, Lane County Commissioners are poised to accept a grant to expand a program that’s aimed at keeping batteries out of trash and recycling streams.

Many of the people most dependent on income from redeeming bottles and cans struggle to get those items to the places where they can turn them in for money.A new project in Eugene will bring a mobile bottle drop to the people and places it's needed most.

A newly formed group of local recycling and trash haulers are threatening to sue Lane County over a project to divert waste from the landfill.

The agency anticipates the mattress recycling will be up and running by the end of 2024, or early 2025.

Officials say the facility would transform food waste and other organic material into natural gas. It will also pull recyclable items out of the garbage stream.

Since 2018, when China stopped accepting recycling from the U.S., domestic programs have begun to fill the gap.

Oregonians will be able to recycle their mattresses under a new law that will roll out over the next two years.