January 21, 2008
Due To Extreme Fuel Prices, I Am No Longer Able To Provide This Service
There have been a number of occasions where bloggers have made comments about the lack of places to recycle in the Portland area. Volunteer Recycling on Morningside Drive takes metals ( and they pay you for them), but I am not aware of any place locally that takes anything other than metal, and Volunteer's hours aren't convenient for everyone, so . . . Starting February 1st, I will start providing a FREE recycling pick-up service to Portland area residents. Yes, FREE! (My payment comes from selling the items in bulk to recycling companies) It is hard, dirty work, with a payoff that has more to do with wanting to "do my part" than it does with money, but I will make enough that I can do it without charging the people who are simply wanting to keep their junk out of the landfills . . . and still make a small profit. I HOPE at some point in the not too distant future that I will be able to provide a "drop-off" location as well, but for now I can only schedule pick-ups.
For more information about what I am offering to pick up, just click on the “continue reading” link below. If you have something that isn't on the list, feel free to call me and I'll see what I can do.
Unless noted, condition doesn’t matter.
ANYTHING METAL:
Aluminum cans
Tin cans (vegetable, coffee, etc.)
Used aluminum foil and baking pans (please rinse off food)
Pots, pans and bake ware , odd and end lids (no glass)
Lawn furniture, umbrellas
metal furniture: Tables, chairs, bake racks, shelving (including white coated metal)
Tool boxes and tools (rusted, broken, dented, crushed - all OK)
Poles, old mops and brooms, swiffers, etc.
Exercise equipment
air conditioners and heaters (including central H/A units)
METAL roofing and siding
wrecked or junk cars (or their parts)
ANYTHING THAT RUNS ON ELECTRICITY- (working ir not)
Christmas lights, extension cords, surge protectors
Small appliances (toasters, vacuum cleaners, microwaves, can openers, etc)
Large appliances (TV, refrigerators, stoves, washers, dryers, etc.)
Computers and accessories
Phones, answering machines, fax machines
Heaters, air conditioners, humidifiers
LAWN AND GARDEN
Lawn mowers
Weed eaters
Seed spreaders
Wagons and wheelbarrows
PAPER: (MUST BE DRY)
Cardboard
Newspaper
Magazines
Books (paperback or hardback)
TEXTILES: (MUST BE DRY)
Clothing (usable, stains, tears, missing buttons - all OK, but please leave out stained underwear)
Shoes (can be very used, even ugly, but must be usable and in pairs)
Purses (faded and worn ok , but needs to be usable)
Hats, scarves, gloves
Stuffed animals
Remnant fabric, ribbons, etc.
curtains, tablecloths,fabric napkins, placemats, table runners
socks (mismatches okay)
Sorry, no carpet of any kind
PLASTIC
Plastic bottles (only drink bottles for now: water, cola, juice, etc.)
Milk jugs- (PLEASE rinse out - sour milk is NASTY)
Clothes hangers
Toys (if they are still in suitable condition for a child to play with it)
BATTERIES-
Car batteries
Boat batteries
Lawn and garden batteries
CELL PHONES (these will be donated to help domestic violence victims)
MISC. HOUSEHOLD-
Unwanted misc. household items and/or leftover yard sale items that you do not want to pack back into the house.
FURNITURE (unless it is metal, Must be DRY, have ALL parts, be in relatively good condition and free of strong odors)
Posted by Michelle Hanners at 08:16 AM | Comments (8)
May 18, 2007
A free public service ... or litter?
Each week The Tennessean throws a rolled-up copy of their want-ads into my front yard. (I don't subscribe to The Tennessean.) They apparently throw one in everybody's yard in Portland.
To me this is littering. I go around with a trash bag and pick up fast-food wrappers, beer cans, cola bottles, etc. that people have tossed out in my yard. The Tennessean want-ads go into the same trash bag.
How do other people feel about the want-ads? If this a good, free public service or a company throwing trash out around Portland?
Posted by admin at 09:09 AM | Comments (42)
July 29, 2005
Postal spam
We were discussing trash on this blog the other day -- how to dispose of it in a responsible way.
I was reminded of this when I got a phone book in the mail. Actually, I have a post office box and a rural mail box, so I received two phone books. The other day, I received a different phone book from another company. And, of course, once a year, I receive a phonebook from BellSouth.
Now, take three phone books and multiply by the number of households in Portland, and that adds up to TONS of trash. (If people don't throw these books away immediately, they will one day.)
I call all of this stuff "Postal spam." It's like spam you receive in your e-mail box, except postal spam goes (eventually) to the garbage dump.
I wonder if anybody has ever calculated what percentage of our trash comes from catalogs we don't want, phonebooks we don't use, junk mail, etc. That would be an interesting statistic!
Posted by admin at 03:24 PM | Comments (12)