Our Focus

While there are numerous activities and happening within the world of recycling in Oregon, our focus in 2011 is in the following areas:

At the beginning of each year, the Recycling Advocates Board of Directors decides which advocacy issues are the most relevant, important and timely for our efforts.  Read below for more infomation on our 2011 Advocacy focus's.

• Product Stewardship
  The word stewardship implies responsibility, usually for something owned by someone else. That is the foundation for product stewardship, a program to manage products that we buy when it is time to dispose of them...click for more info
• Bottle Bill Expansion
  The Oregon bottle bill passed the 1971 legislature as a litter bill, designed to clean up the roadsides of Oregon.  The bill remained the same, despite several attempts by the legislature and by initiative, until the 2007 legislature added water and flavored water to the deposit. .....click for more info
• The Oregon Bag Ban
  Oregonians use an estimated 1.7 billion plastic checkout bags every year. Plastic pollution has become a critical problem in our oceans, with as much as 100 million tons now polluting the North Pacific alone. Plastic never biodegrades; it only photo-degrades into smaller and smaller bits, strangling, suffocating and poisoning sea life, including whales, fish and birds. SB 536 would ban single use plastic checkout bags at all retail outlets in Oregon.....click for more info
• Other Advocacy
  There are still many other recycling issues that RA keeps tabs on.  Click here to see what else is going on.