Recycling Rescue

This blog is dedicated to the recycling that I and others find while out and about. Perhaps it’s the side of the road, at the trail head or in a friend’s garbage. The recycling featured in this blog is being saved form heading to the landfill, or from rotting in the elements until no longer recyclable. I have been "rescuing" recyclables for many years and I’ve now decided I want to quantify just how much I’m saving from the landfill to perhaps encourage other people to do the same.

Monday, May 25, 2015

WELL. I forgot to take a picture....
Last week I scraped 18lbs of UBC (Used Beverage Container.... Aluminum Cans)
Though I live in a bottle bill state, crushed cans don't really work in the system like CRV would in California. Oregon's bottle bill is NOT by weight.

Anyway, when I find crushed cans, I just hold on to them until the next time I go to Metro Metals to scrap stuff. I find a lot of crushed cans all over Portland as no other bottle hound is picking these up (as they can not get five cents per can for them).

My 18lbs of aluminum landed me.....$6.30! Wahoo! Oh well, better than nothing. That 18lbs also equates to around 750-1000 cans (depending on the size). Hence why I'm bummed I forgot to take a picture.
I had been collecting this bunch from March 1st 2015 - May 20th 2015.

Monday, May 18, 2015

26 aluminum cans and 1 PET bottle at the Sandy Ridge Mountain Biking Trail head. May 2015

Monday, May 11, 2015

Much garbage to be found in the woods just North of the trailhead to Mirror Lake on route 26. May 2015

In just 6 minutes I found:

50 Aluminim cans of various sizes.

Table Mountain trailhead trashcans. May 2015
6 PET bottles
4 Aluminum cans