Recycle at WorkBusiness Bulletin

Summer 2014

A publication of the Washington County Solid Waste & Recycling Program.

Pictured: Food scraps collected in Washington County are converted to compost, as well as electricity and fertilizer.

Food Scraps Pilot Produces Clean Composting Stream

The Washington County Solid Waste & Recycling Program’s food scraps pilot program, which

began January 1st of this year, continues to recover valuable food from businesses throughout the county. As part of the program, the county helps participating businesses donate edible food to local community organizations, and shows them how to separate food scraps from garbage, in order for it to be composted. The pilot program owes its success to local participating businesses, including:Claim Jumper; Costco – Hillsboro; Juanita Pohl Senior Center; Oregon Episcopal School; Reedville Café; Shari’s Restaurants’ Aloha and Tualatin locations; Sherwood Senior Community Center; Tuality Hospital; and Village Inn. The local garbage and recycling collection companies supporting the pilot program are Aloha Garbage Co. Inc., Hillsboro Garbage Disposal, Pride Disposal Co., Republic Services and Waste Management, as well as the cities of Hillsboro, Sherwood and Tualatin.

Businesses are participating in the pilot program for many reasons: the environmental benefits of recovering food scraps, potential to reduce garbage, cost savings, improved business image, and the ability to identify sources and quantities of food waste in order to prevent waste in the first place. Businesses find the pilot program’s food-only acceptance standard is easy for employees

to understand. The focused training associated with the program also re-

sults in employees cleaning-up recycling containers as they learn how to dispose of all waste better. The Washington County Solid Waste & Recycling Program continues to recruit new businesses in Hillsboro, Sherwood, Tualatin and unincorporated Washington County, with a focus on full-service restaurants and grocery stores. For more information on commercial food scraps collection, contact the Washington County Solid Waste & Recycling Program at 503-846-3605 or recycle@co.washington.or.us.

34 percent of those receiving emergency food from the Oregon

Food Bank are children.

What’s inside...Food Scraps Pilot Produces Clean Composting Stream

Workshop Promotes Benefits of Materials Exchanging

Spotlight on Business - RAW Award Winners

Caruso Produce Reduces Garbage by Donating Food

Understanding Eco Labels

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To preserve the Metro Regional Government’s ability to serve area businesses, program changes were recently made for commercial organics loads being delivered to the Metro Central Transfer Station in NW Portland. The acceptance standards will be implemented in two phases. As of November 1, 2014, food scraps loads may not contain regular or waxed corrugated cardboard. Loads with more than trivial amounts of these materials will be treated and charged as garbage. As of March 1, 2015, food scraps loads may not contain non-food items. Loads with more than trivial amounts of these materials will be treated and charged as garbage. If your business receives commercial food scraps collection, and you have questions regarding this change, contact the Washington County Solid Waste & Recycling Program at 503-846-3605 for assistance relevant to this program change.

JOIN THESE BUSINESSESBecome Washington County’s Next

Recycle at Work Award Winning Business

If your business is located in Washington County, and is working to recycle, prevent waste and purchase recycled-content products, contact the Washington County Solid Waste & Recycling

Program for more information about the Recycle at Work Business Award, at 503-846-3605 or www.WashingtonCountyRecycles.org.

BANKS TRAIL CAFE • MONTES MANAGEMENT & CONSULTING • KAREN L. LEWIS • SWATCO SANITARY SERVICE • CITY OR CORNELIUS • VIRGINIA GARCIA - CORNELIUS WELLNESS CENTER • WOODFOLD MANUFACTURING • WSC INSURANCE • CITY OF HILLSBORO - PARKS MAINTENANCE • CITY OF HILLSBORO - SENIOR CENTER • CLEAN COPY • CLEAN WATER SERVICES • WORLD OF SMILES PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY • EPSON PORTLAND INC. • GENENTECH • GREENSPACE • HILLSBORO FIRE DEPARTMENT - JONES FARM FIRE STATION NO. 5 • HILLSBORO FIRE DEPARTMENT - CHERRY LANE FIRE STATION NO. 6 • INSOMNIA COFFEE CO. • INTEL CORP. - HAWTHORN FARM • INTEL CORP. - JONES FARM • INTEL CORP. - RONLER ACRES • JACKSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL • JONES & ROTH CPA • NEW SEASONS MARKET - ORENCO STATION • PACIFIC LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT • REI HILLSBORO • SALESFORCE • SHARI’S - TANASBOURNE • SHARI’S - HILLSBORO • SOLARWORLD • SOLV • WASHINGTON COUNTY • WHOLE FOODS MARKET - TANASBOURNE • SHARI’S - KING CITY • REPUBLIC SERVICES OF LAKE OSWEGO • SHARI’S - SHERWOOD • ASH CREEK FOREST MANAGEMENT • CITY OF TIGARD • CLEAN WATER SERVICES - DURHAM WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITY • CLUB SPORT OREGON • DEANGELO’S CATERING & EVENTS • FINNEGAN’S VILLAGE TOYS • GEODESIGN INC. • ID EXPERTS • IKON OFFICE SOLUTIONS • MARCO IDEAS UNLIMITED, INC. • PORTLAND CATERING CO. • CITY OF TUALATIN • DIANAPLANTSCIENCES • FUJIMI CORP. • OREGON SCIENTIFIC • PACIFIC FOODS OF OREGON, INC. • SHARI’S TUALATIN • VWR INTERNATIONAL • ALOHA DOG & CAT HOSPITAL • CONSUMER CELLULAR • INLINE COMMERCIAL CONSTRUCTION • INTEL CORP. - ALOHA • CAPITAL ONE • GERBER GEAR • MONTINORE ESTATE • NEW SEASONS MARKET - RALEIGH HILLS • NIKE INC. WORLD HEADQUARTERS • RAPTOR RIDGE WINERY • SCHOLLS VALLEY NATIVE NURSERY • SHARI’S - FARMINGTON • SHARI’S - SUNSET • TUALATIN VALLEY WATER DISTRICT • WH PACIFIC • WINZLER & KELLY • CLICK COMMERCE • EID PASSPORT

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Workshop Promotes Benefits of Materials Exchanging

This past April, roughly three dozen attendees

learned about the importance of commercial materials exchanging and re-use at the Washington County Solid Waste & Recycling Program’s third annual ResourceFull Use Work-shop. ResourceFull Use is an innovative resources exchange program available to manufactur-ing and industrial businesses throughout the greater Portland Metro region. The purpose of the free workshops is to provide a setting for participants to create business-to-business partnerships for materials otherwise destined for landfill. Held at Norm Thompson Outfitters, Westside businesses, including Ushio America, VWR International, Oregon Health & Science University’s Oregon National Primate Research Center, Huntair, Dapper & Wise Roasters, Tuality Healthcare and Hardwood Industries, learned how re-use impacts the environment and how it can also impact a company’s bottom line. For example, Gerber Gear Safety & Facilities Manager Marie Hagenlock informed attendees of its relationship with Kleen Blast, who collects and reuses the glass bead from Gerber’s knife polishing operation. To date, Gerber is experiencing annual garbage costs savings of roughly $6,000 thanks to this re-use partnership. Oregon Department of Environmental Quality Policy and Program Analyst David Allaway addressed the environmental and economical benefits of re-use. For example, from an environmental perspective, reusing a personal computer can save five to 20 times more energy than recycling it. Economically, David provided examples of companies who have benefited from such a sustainable business practice, including: • Oregon Arena Corp. (OAC) was able to provide 400 five-gallon pails of concrete spray coating to an Oklahoma-based painting con tractor, netting the OAC $3,000 in disposal savings. • Siltronic/Precision Castparts found a secondary home for its used hydrofluoric and nitric acids, resulting in $24,600 in purchasing savings. • The Ghirardelli Chocolate Co. replaced cardboard shipping boxes with reusable totes, which produced $1.95 million in savings over a five-year period for the San Francisco-based company.

Lastly, Cracked Pots Vice President Amy Wilson educated the crowd on how the local non-profit uses art to encourage the local community to creatively look at materials as something other than just trash. Learn more at the next ResourceFull Use workshop, scheduled for July 24th at the Portland Airport Business Center inside the PDX International Airport. To register, click here.

Pictured: Gerber Gear’s Marie Hagenlock talks about sustainability efforts at the Tigard-based company.

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Coffee Cup FactsAverage Serving Size: 9 oz. (266 ml)Servings Per Container 1

Make the Wise Mug Choice Daily Value

Million cups of coffee consumed per day in U.S. 400Million pounds of coffee cups landfilled each year in U.S. 363Number of uses most reusable mugs and tumblers are designed for 3,000Number of coffee shops that offer discounts to customers that provide their own mug Endless

Encourage Durable Mug Use!

Facts: Environment Action Association, Starbucks, Alliance for the Environmental Innovation and Environmental Defense Fund.

Spotlight on Business

Pictured, from left to right: Mike Kelly, Lynnise Searcy, Juan Marquez, Kellie O’Donnell, Brian Naylor and Anna Magers.

Proudly celebrating its 75th year, Gerber Gear is not only a leading global supplier of activity specific knives, multi-tools and

problem-solving gear, but is now also the Wash-ington County Solid Waste & Recycling Program’s newest Recycle at Work Award winning business. How many other businesses do you know that are achieving both an 85+ percent material recovery rate and making products to help you survive a zombie apocalypse?

For more about Gerber Gear, click here.

Pictured, from left to right: Dawn Trapp and Marie Hagenlock.

When you walk through the Salesforce Hillsboro location, two characteristics

of the company are plainly evident: its fun and sustainable. And, it’s not just the office building, but the operations of this global cloud computing company, that make it a Washington County Solid Waste & Recycling Program Recycle at Work Award winner.

For more about Salesforce, click here.

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We may not know what’s in Capital One’s wallet, but we definitely know what’s

on the company’s wall: The Washington County Solid Waste & Recycling Program’s Recycle at Work Award. Ranked as one of Newsweek’s greenest American companies, Capital One earned the RAW Award for the ongoing sustainable efforts undertaken at the financial corporation’s Tigard campus.

For more about Capital One, click here.

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Pictured, front row, from left to right: Cindy Kramer, Rick Zinda, Paul Garrett, Kenny McCartney and Cindy Weber. Back

row, from left to right: Chris Hammond, Alanna Woodward, Adam Allen, Nick Rosenthal,

Robert Knoke and Jamison Bourgeois.

Spotlight on Business

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BusinessReCYCLinG GuiDe

neWsPAPeRsMAGAZines

PAPeR Include paper of all colors (tape, staples, glue, paper clips okay), envelopes (windows and labels okay), spiral-bound notebooks, file folders, phone books and milk cartons (empty and rinsed).

Do not include coffee cups, label-backing sheets, frozen food boxes, bath tissue, paper towels, or waxed cardboard boxes.

sCRAP MeTAL Include scrap metal that is smaller than 30 inches in any direction and less than 40 pounds.

Do not include metal that has plastic, food, or other non-metal materials attached.

Do not include wax-coated cardboard, take-out food containers or pizza boxes.

Flatten cardboard boxes.

MeTAL CAns Include rinsed aluminum, tin and steel food cans, empty aerosol cans and empty, dry, metal paint cans.

Do not flatten. Do not include lids (unless they are attached to cans).

Remove food from foil. Crumple into loosely-packed balls.

PLAsTiC TuBs AnD BOTTLes

Include yogurt–type containers (6 ounces or larger), rigid plant pots (4 inches or larger) and buckets (5 gallons or smaller). Rinse containers.

Do not include plastic bags, lids or take-out food containers. NO STYROFOAM.

sHReDDeD PAPeR

CARDBOARD

FOiL

Call your garbage and recycling company for preparation instructions.

Do not place loose in recycling container.

ReCYCLe GL Ass sePAR ATeLYGLAss Glass bottles and jars only.

Recycle in a separate container.Do not include lightbulbs, drinkingglasses, dishware, or window glass.

from Metro and the Washington County Cooperative Recycling Program

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periódicos revistas catálogos

Incluya propaganda, tarjetas postalesy papel misceláneo.

No incluya ligas de goma, ni bolsasde plástico.

cartón Aplane las cajas de cartón. No incluya cajas de cartónencerado, ni cajas para pizza.

cartones de leche cajas de bebidas

Enjuague para quitar todos los restosde comida.

No incluya los popotes.

papel suelto El papel suelto incluye: propagandapostal, sobres, papel de oficina,tarjetas, tubos de papel, papel paraenvolver y cajas de cereal (pero no labolsa).

No incluya papel higiénico, toallasde papel, cajas de comidacongelada, tazas de café ni papelcubierto con comida, cera,aluminio o plástico.

envases y botellas de plástico

Los envases incluyen: recipientescomo los de yogur (6 onzas o más),macetas rígidas de 4” a 12” endiámetro, y cubetas de hasta 5galones. Enjuague los envases.

No incluya las tapas. No incluyabotellas que se hayan usado paraaceite de automóvil, pesticidas oherbicidas.

latas de metal Las latas incluyen: latas de aluminio,estaño y acero para alimentos, y latasde metal para pintura vacías y secas.Enjuague las latas de alimentos paraquitar los restos de comida. Pongalas tapas de metal dentro de las latasy pliegue para cerrarlas.

No las aplaste.

latas de aerosol Las latas deben estar vacías. No incluya las tapas de plástico.No aplaste ni perfore las latas niquite las boquillas.

papel aluminio Quite la comida del papel aluminio.Límpielo y estrújalo formando bolasque no son apretadas.

chatarra Incluya chatarra de menos de30 pulgadas en cualquier direccióny que pesa menos de 30 libras.

No incluya metal que tiene pegadoplástico, comida u otros materialesque no son de metal.

www.WashingtonCountyRecycles.org • (503) 846-3605

WASTE FACT!Only about 10

percent of all food generated annually in Oregon is

recovered for composting or digestion. Nationally, that

figure decreases to three percent.

CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT FOOD SCRAPS

MANAGEMENT.

Since mid-January, Tualatin-based fruitand vegetable

wholesaler Caruso Produce donated roughly 148,000 pounds of nutritious fruits and vegetables to the Oregon Food Bank (OFB). With the help of the Washington County Solid Waste & Recycling Program, Caruso Produce was able to establish a partnership with the non-profit, charitable organization early on this year. Currently, the OFB sends a truck roughly twice a week to pick up any fruits and vegetables that are edible but not saleable. The Oregon

Caruso Produce Reduces Garbage by Donating Food

DONATE THE BEST! COMPOST THE REST!

Mikey Caruso holds a flat of tomatoes set aside for donation to the Oregon Food Bank.

Food Bank then redistributes it to people in need throughout the Portland Metro area. Not only does Caruso Produce feel good knowing the food they donate is feeding hungry people, but the wholesaler is experiencing other benefits as well. For every bit of food the company donates, it saves Caruso on garbage disposal costs. Additionally, donating also qualifies Caruso for an enhanced tax deduction. The Oregon Food Bank network consists of four main branch locations in the cities of Beaverton, Ontario, Portland and Tillamook, 17 independent regional food banks and over 950 partner agencies. Each month, the organization serves an average of 270,000 people in need.

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Upcoming Events

F R E E -ResourceFull Use WorkshopJuly 24, 2014

Portland Airport Business CenterClick here to register

F R E E -Washington County Spanish Recycling

WorkshopSeptember 2014Location TBD

F R E E -Washington County ResourceFull Use Workshop

April 2015Location TBD

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Concerned with the amount of garbage generated at your workplace? Find potential cost savings hidden in your garbage

containers, improve your environmental performance, and possibly save your company money, by scheduling a FREE on-site

waste evaluation.

Explore your business’ potential for improving its environmental and financial bottom lines through waste reduction. To request a

waste evaluation today, contact us at 503-846-3605 or recycle@co.washington.or.us.

Request A FREE Waste Evaluation

FREE Assistance for Managers of Multi-Family

Communities

Looking to Donate Food. The Following Organizations Can Help.

www.WashingtonCountyRecycles.org - 503-846-3605

Understanding Eco LabelsThis reprint from the June 2014 issue of industry trade journal,

Resource Recycling, addresses eco labels, the sustainability claims these labels represent, and how to identify these logos when it comes

time to procuring or disposing of products bearing such labels.

We know to check the

Nutrition Facts label if we’re looking to eat healthy or be better informed about the foods we buy and eat. These days, more consumers are also looking for labels that display the terms “organic,” “local” or “gluten free.” What about when it comes to the sustainability of other products we also use everyday, such as office paper, house-hold or workplace cleaners or even foodservice items, such as utensils, plates, bowls and cups? For more about “Eco Labels,” click here.

This publication is produced in cooperation with the cities of Banks, Cornelius, Durham, Forest Grove, Hillsboro, King City, North Plains, Sherwood, Tigard and Tualatin.

Missed the last Business Bulletin?Catch up online! Visit www.WashingtonCountyRecycles.org and click “Tools and Resources.”