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  2. Metro (Oregon regional government) - Wikipedia

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    Metro is responsible for overseeing the Portland region's solid waste system, general planning of land use and transportation, maintaining certain regional parks and natural areas, and operating the Oregon Zoo, Oregon Convention Center, Portland's Centers for the Arts, and the Portland Expo Center. It also distributes money from two voter ...

  3. Tire recycling in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 1978, a toxic fire at Wade Dump, a rubber recycling facility in Chester, Pennsylvania, burned out of control for several days and resulted in 43 injured firefighters and criminal charges for the owner of the site. First responders to the fire suffered long-term health consequences and higher than normal cancer rates.

  4. Source-separated organics - Wikipedia

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    Portland Composts! - Business organics recycling in Portland, OR; Save Our Scraps Archived 2011-07-15 at the Wayback Machine - Public school organic recycling program in Clark County, WA; Food Scrap Recycling Ads by StopWaste.org, CA; Recycle Food. It's Easy to Do. by King County, WA; City of Dubuque Food Scrap Recycling Program by Dubuque, IA

  5. Waste Connections - Wikipedia

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    In addition, Waste Connections runs landfills for waste disposal (82 solid waste landfills as of September 2019). [6] [7] In Q3 2017, 67% of revenue was from solid waste collection, 21% from solid waste disposal and transfer, 4% from recycling, 5% from its oil industry waste operations, and 3% from other sources.

  6. Recycling in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Stanolind Recycling Plant was in operation as early 1947. [32] Another early recycling mill was Waste Techniques, built in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania in 1972. [citation needed] Waste Techniques was sold to Frank Keel in 1978, and resold to BFI in 1981. Woodbury, New Jersey, was the first city in the United States to mandate recycling. [33]

  7. Radius Recycling - Wikipedia

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    Radius Recycling, Inc., previously known as Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc., is a steel manufacturing and scrap metal recycling company headquartered in Portland, Oregon. Founded in 1906, the publicly traded company is a component Russell 2000 Index with approximately 3,500 employees. In 2023, the company adopted its current name and a new ...