Recycling

Final preparations are underway for the 56th annual Oregon Country Fair, starting this Friday in Veneta.

Large companies will start paying into a program to expand and unify Oregon's recycling system, helping more cities offer recycling services.

Hold onto your yogurt containers: Good news for recyclers is just weeks away.

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.