Services, Guides, and Information
62 services and resources found
Garbage service for houses and smallplexes
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Learn how to set up garbage service for your home, duplex, triplex, or fourplex. And find out what to do in case of a missed pickup, plus rules for setting your bins at the curb, and what to do with extras that don't fit in your bin.
Garbage service for multifamily properties
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Learn how to set up garbage, recycling, and compost collection service for your multifamily property. This includes apartments, condos, townhomes, and any residential community with five or more units.
Key policies, programs, and plans that shaped how the City of Portland manages and reduces waste. Details the evolution of Portland's garbage, recycling, and compost collection system from the 1950s to the present.
How to dispose of event waste
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Find drop-off locations for event recycling and waste materials or hire a garbage hauler to pick-up from the event site.
Tips for setting up garbage and recycling stations at large events, including choosing containers, labels, and locations.
How to set up garbage service
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How you set up service depends on whether you’re at home or at work, whether you own or rent your home, and whether you live in a house or a larger building.
Improvements to Multifamily Recycling
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Over the next few years, changes will be made to make recycling easier at apartments and other multifamily communities. This includes improved garbage and recycling service levels, easy-to-understand signs, and color-coded containers.
Large household waste disposal options
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Need to get rid of something big and bulky like a couch, mattress, or appliance? You have drop-off and pick-up options for recycling, donation, and disposal.
Office compost guide
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Learn how to set up and maintain a compost program at your office. Get free posters and stickers, staff training tools, and tips for composting food waste.
Order posters and stickers to label garbage, recycling, and compost bins at your workplace.
Order free garbage, recycling, and compost signs for rental home, smallplex, or multifamily tenants.
Choose from this list of approved waste collection haulers to set up garbage, recycling, and compost service for your business.
Plastic bag ban and paper bag fee
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Plastic single-use checkout bags cannot be provided by retailers, grocery stores, or restaurants. Paper checkout bags may be provided by retailers and grocery for a 5-cent (or more) fee per bag.
Polystyrene foam container ban
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Restaurants, grocery stores and nonprofit food servers cannot serve, sell, or package food or beverages in Styrofoam™ or other polystyrene foam containers.
Print event waste signs
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Print ready-to-go signs for your event
Printable guides show what's allowed in garbage, recycling, and compost bins for residential homes (including duplexes, triplexes, and fourplexes) in Portland.
Recycle Right at Work
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Rights, responsibilities, and resources for Portland businesses around garbage, recycling, compost, and waste prevention.
Recycling at apartments & multifamily
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Information about garbage and recycling at apartments, condos, townhomes, and other residential communities with five or more units.
Recycling at businesses
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Find out how to set up garbage, recycling, and compost at your business; what’s required by the City; and how to make it easy for staff to recycle, compost, and reduce waste.
Recycling at home
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Information about garbage, recycling, and compost for homeowners, renters, and landlords of single-family houses, duplexes, triplexes, and fourplexes.
Owners and managers of multifamily properties – including apartments, condos, townhomes, and any residential community with five or more units – are required to provide and pay for adequate garbage and recycling service.
Recycling requirements for rental houses
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Garbage and recycling requirements for property owners, managers, and landlords of residential rentals including single-family homes, duplexes, triplexes, and fourplexes.
Recycling Signs for Apartments & Multifamily
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Recycling, garbage, and compost signs for multifamily properties, including apartments, condos, townhomes, and any residential community with five or more units.
Reduce food waste at your business
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Low-income households with increased garbage needs due to adult diapers or other health condition-related waste can apply for additional garbage service at no cost.
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